🇺🇬 Uganda
Scientists Challenge Fear of Bats in Ebola Research
For years, bats have been blamed as the natural reservoir for Ebola virus. But a scientist working in Uganda n
🔬 Wild Discoveries
Wild Discoveries
New species, strange research, scientific surprises, and discoveries that expand the map of reality.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
Ethiopia's protected parks may be harming local well being, study finds
Ethiopia's national parks and wildlife reserves, long celebrated as global conservation victories, may be quie
🌍 Madagascar
How Madagascar's silk caterpillars are saving the forest
In Madagascar, a caterpillar that spins brown silk is giving local farmers a reason to keep forests standing.
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Landslides killed 7% of the world's rarest orangutans in Indonesia
A single year of extreme weather in Indonesia wiped out 7% of the world's rarest great apes. The Tapanuli oran
🇫🇷 France
ESA adopts Arrakihs mission to dig up cosmic history by 2030
The European Space Agency has officially adopted a mission named Arrakihs that will hunt for the faintest ligh
🇺🇸 United States
The Hidden Toll of Failed Drug Trials on Scientists
For every drug that reaches a pharmacy shelf, hundreds of others vanish in clinical trials. But the scientists
🇺🇸 United States
NASA Shrinks a Cloud Radar to the Size of a Shoebox
NASA has built a radar for studying clouds that is small enough to fit inside a shoebox. The instrument, calle
🇺🇸 United States
NASA Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for Black Hole Stars
A star powered by a black hole at its core sounds like science fiction. But NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
🌍 Tanzania
The tiny blue gecko that survived the pet trade
A brilliant blue lizard smaller than a human finger was nearly collected into extinction. The turquoise dwarf
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Targeted therapy may turn advanced lung cancer into a chronic disease
A new study from Hong Kong suggests that advanced lung cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, coul
🇪🇸 Spain
43 Helmets Found Off Spain Were Not Roman. They Were Medieval.
For more than 30 years, a cache of 43 iron helmets pulled from the seafloor off Spain was labeled Roman. Scien
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Ozone layer fix may have unleashed a global forever chemical rain
A global rain of invisible forever chemicals is falling on every continent, the unintended consequence of the
🇨🇦 Canada
Woolly mammoth DNA found inside ancient squirrel poop in Canada
A team of scientists in Canada stumbled upon woolly mammoth DNA while digging through the fossilized feces of
🇪🇸 Spain
A Single Cell That Hints at How Animals First Came Together
A single celled organism that can clump together with its own kind is giving scientists a fresh glimpse into t
