Ari Daniel

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Some whales use vocal fry to find and catch their food, new research says

Thursday, March 02, 2023

Scientists have confirmed that toothed whales use vocal registers to produce a variety of sounds – something previously confirmed only in humans and crows.

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Where this doctor finds hope amid her country's record cholera outbreak

Thursday, March 02, 2023

Treating cholera has been a passion for Bangladeshi scientist Firdausi Qadri. She reflects on her career and inspirations, cholera's scourge, as well as successes in combating the disease.

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Clues to Bronze Age cranial surgery revealed in ancient bones

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a rare type of skull surgery dating back to the Bronze Age that's similar to a procedure still being used today.

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A kid in Guatemala had a dream. Today she's a disease detective

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Neudy Rojop made a girlhood pledge. When family members fell ill, she says she decided to become a nurse "so I could change my community for good."

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Encore: Killer whale moms are supporting their adult sons — and it's costing them

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Killer whale moms spend a lot of energy and resources on their adult sons. Research shows that could impact their reproductive success long-term.

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Killer whale moms are still supporting their adult sons — and it's costing them

Thursday, February 09, 2023

Orca moms spent precious resources feeding their fully grown adult male offspring. A new study finds that this may limit how many more young they produce.

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Ready, aim, suck up mosquitoes: An 'insectazooka' aims to find the next killer virus

Wednesday, February 08, 2023

In Guatemala's mosquito-plagued lowlands, researchers use a novel tool to suck up mosquitoes to analyze pathogens in their latest blood meal. The hope is to stop the next pandemic before it starts.

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Trying to crack the Nipah code: How does this deadly virus spill from bats to humans?

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Nipah virus, which can rapidly infect and kill members of a community, is carried by bats. Exactly how does it cross over into humans? Researchers in Bangladesh are trying to find out.

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Scientists hope to curb the deadly Nipah virus that terrorizes Bangladesh villages

Monday, January 30, 2023

Every couple of years, a deadly outbreak of Nipah virus terrorizes villages in Bangladesh. Scientists there are studying the virus, which is harbored in fruit bats, to stop the cycle of outbreaks.

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Encore: Perceiving without seeing: How light resets your internal clock

Monday, January 02, 2023

Human bodies use light to help tune their body clocks, and that's true even for some blind people. How does this work? It's a circadian mystery.

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Aaron Gordon seemed to suspend gravity with an incredible Christmas Day dunk

Monday, December 26, 2022

In a crucial moment during an overtime battle with the Phoenix Suns, Denver forward Aaron Gordon seemed to fly to the rim. Analysts are calling it the dunk of the year.

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The astonishing vanishing act of the glassfrog, revealed

Monday, December 26, 2022

A kind of transparent frog achieves near invisibility by hiding its red blood cells during the day, scientists found. "I had never seen anything like that," researcher Carlos Taboada says.

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Perceiving without seeing: How light resets your internal clock

Saturday, December 17, 2022

We mark our days by sunlight, with special receptors in our eyes that respond to light and help reset our body clocks each day. This man can't see, but is still a circadian wiz. Here's how.

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An elegant way to stop deadly Hendra virus spillovers from bats to horses ... to us

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

New research points to a surprising way to stop spillovers of Hendra virus, which is harbored by bats. It's not often that it jumps to horses, then humans, but when it does, the result are brutal.

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Amid vaccine shortages, Lebanon faces its first cholera outbreak in three decades

Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Several crises in the country — including political instability, COVID and financial collapse — have created deteriorating conditions that have allowed the bacteria to spread.

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This urban mosquito threatens to derail the fight against malaria in Africa

Tuesday, November 01, 2022

The Anopheles stephensi is a well-known malaria mosquito, but still sort of new in Ethiopia, where it has caused dramatic, out-of-season outbreaks in ill-equipped cities, new research shows.

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Conflict in Tigray has led to a collapse of its public health system

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Conflict in Tigray has led to a collapse of its public health system. Physicians are having to reuse gloves, use expired medications and deny patients care because of lack of resources and power.

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'Where is humanity?' ask the helpless doctors of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region

Friday, October 14, 2022

Civil war has blockaded the country's northern region and decimated a hospital system that serves nearly 7 million people. Without basic supplies, power and medicine, thousands are needlessly dying.

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4 ways the world messed up its pandemic response — and 3 fixes to do better next time

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

A new report from the Lancet Commission sums up the many mistakes that have been made and offers proposals for a more effective global strategy if and when another pandemic should strike.

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This Massachusetts startup wants to track your sweat

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

We've got any number of devices we can strap to our bodies to track our footsteps, heart rate, and sleep patterns. Next up, possibly — sweat monitoring for precision rehydration and worker safety.

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