Ari Daniel
Stories
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Scientists may be able to revive the Tasmanian tiger from extinction. But should they?
A company says it is pulling together DNA to try to re-create the Tasmanian tiger, which went extinct. But some people question whether it makes sense to restore creatures to a different world.
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Science
Centuries-old remains found in a well may be man from Norse saga
An old Norse story tells of a king's man being tossed down a well in 1197. An archeologist teamed up with an evolutionary genomicist to study DNA of a skeleton found in that well.
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Health
This farmer 'planted blindly' in a changing climate. A weather app came to his rescue
“I kept on guessing and just taking risks,” says farmer Stephen Nzioka of Kenya. A weekly text message has been a game changer as he copes with a changing climate.
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The challenges of vaccinating 590,000 kids against polio in the war zone of Gaza
Public health officials are hoping to reach the more than half a million Gaza children who received their first dose a few weeks back. But a shifting battlefield is making everything more challenging.
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Science
There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s trunk
A bump in the elephant brain stem pointed scientists to the wrinkles on their trunks and the role those folds play in the animal’s life.
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Science
Alive on paper but dead in reality — why fewer people may be reaching advanced age
Research into some areas of the world that have a lot of centenarians shows that some of those people are no longer alive. Sometimes the fault is bad record-keeping and sometimes it’s outright fraud.
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Science
A jellyfish with a superpower — it can fuse with another and become one
Researchers found that two individuals of a type of comb jelly can fuse and become one with a shared nervous system and digestive system — which has implications for animal regeneration and immune systems.
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World
Text messages are helping African farmers with their production
African farmers aren't as productive because of changing rainfall patterns. Now, an NGO and the Kenyan government are pulling together geographically precise weather data and texting it to farmers.
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Animals
DNA testing and other advancements mean trafficked animals can return home
New technology is making it easier to find the origins of trafficked wildlife and so they can be released back to the habitat they came from, instead of languishing for decades as sometimes happens.
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Science
Octopuses and fish share leadership — and enforcement — in group hunting
When octopuses and fish hunt in groups in the Red Sea, the leadership roles are more dynamic than researchers knew — as are some ways the animals enforce cooperation.
