Ari Daniel
Stories
-
Science
Searching for tiny dung beetles that clean the vast forest floor
Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts gives clues into the health of forests and fields.
-
Science
This seashell could help improve nanotechnologies, fiber optic cables and more
A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.
-
Animals
The dung beetle census is a window into their ecosystem
Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields.
-
A newly-discovered fossil could help solve a longtime mystery
Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape. An 80 million-year-old bird fossil that sheds light on that mystery.
-
Science
Small fossil has big implications for bird brain evolution
Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on that mystery.
-
Science
Dinosaurs unearthed in China may have ended with a collapse, not a catastrophe
There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.
-
Science
How parrot plumage gets its dazzling reds and yellows
Parrots are unique among birds in how they produce the pigmentation that makes their vibrant feathering. It turns out a single enzyme calibrates the reds and yellows of a parrot’s brilliance.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
