Ari Daniel
Stories
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Science
Celebrating science that's off the beaten track
From pension fraud to plastic plants, this year's Ig Nobel prizes recognize science that can be lighthearted, surprising or unusual.
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Health
Whatever happened to ... the doctors who stand by their patients in gang-ridden Haiti?
How do you get a cancer patient to a center that provides treatment when the roads are not safe? That's one of the challenges facing health-care providers in gang-eidden. Haiti. How are they doing?
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Environment
To save wild crocodiles in Australia, scientists gave them food poisoning
Freshwater crocodiles die every year in Australia from eating poisonous cane toads that humans introduced to the continent. Now scientists have found a way to teach the crocs to avoid the toxic toads.
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Science
Certain bats have no health issues with sugar. Can bats teach us about diabetes?
Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar without getting sick. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it, and if they have something to teach humans.
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Environment
This scientist has a bat tat and earrings. She says there's a lot to learn from bats
Gliselle Marin joins the “Bat-a-thon,” a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals.
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Science
Some plant names can be racist. Scientists are looking to rename them
An international group of researchers has voted to modify the scientific names of more than 200 plant species whose names carry a derogatory word.
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Science
Researchers are revising botanical names to address troubling connotations
Since the mid-1700s, researchers have classified life with scientific names. But some of them have problematic histories and connotations. The botanical community is trying to tackle this issue.
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Science
When did humans get to South America? This giant shelled mammal fossil may hold clues
A fossil of an armadillo-like mammal appears to bear cut marks from butchering by humans, suggesting people were living in South America at least 20,000 years ago, even earlier than once thought.
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Environment
A scientist in Belize hopes bats can galvanize locals to protect their forests
A Belizean bat scientist is looking to these fuzzy, flying mammals to act as emissaries to galvanize the people of Belize to protect their forests.
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Science
Crows can count out loud like human toddlers — when they aren't cheating the test
A study finds that carrion crows can be taught to count and make vocalizations that indicate the number counted, much in the same way that human toddlers do.