Discover how a personalized DNA vaccine trained patients’ immune systems to target their own tumors, with one participant remaining cancer-free nearly five years later.
Learn how a 2,200-year-old Chinese feather decoration was linked to five bird species and possibly made with glue from an extinct water buffalo.
Learn about the birth of two bald eagles and what it can tell us about the success of conservation efforts.
Learn how gases rising through Zambia’s hot springs may reveal some of the earliest signs of a continent beginning to split apart underground.
Learn more about the Cowlitz Indian Tribe's beaver relocation program, part of its ongoing Wildlife Program, that helps relocate beavers in Washington State.
Learn about the “chonky” sea lion entertaining visitors in San Francisco until his sudden departure this month.
Learn more about Kindia, Toronto Zoo’s pregnant pygmy hippo who is due in July and whose calf is the product of international efforts to save the endangered species.
Learn about the elusive ghost elephants living in the Angolan Highlands, and find out why researchers are so intrigued by their genomes.
Learn how researchers in Northern Ireland are using GPS tracking to uncover the obstacles hedgehogs face in modern neighborhoods and cities.
Learn more about the cotton-top tamarin monkey and how the birth of twins at a Minnesota zoo is helping a crtically endangered species.
Learn how archaeologists discovered that Ice Age rhino teeth may have been used by Neanderthals to shape, sharpen, and repair stone tools.
Learn how descendant DNA and archaeology helped a research team identify four more sailors from the Franklin expedition and solve a century-old mystery involving a crew member of the HMS Terror.
Learn about an innovative new approach using environmental DNA to explore deep-sea locations.
Learn how long-finned pilot whales are adapting their calls in response to the racket made by commercial shipping vessels.
Discover how satellite data from the 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai suggests an unusual chemical reaction rapidly broke down methane high in the atmosphere.
Learn more about Rice's whales, and why this population that calls the Gulf of Mexico home is so endangered.
Learn about the recent volcanic eruption of Mount Dukono in Indonesia, and find out why Indonesia has such a high number of active volcanoes.
Learn how the birth of a rare white bison calf at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge connects to broader efforts to restore plains bison and Iowa’s tallgrass prairie ecosystem.
Learn about resiniferatoxin, the hottest substance on Earth that is being investigated as the future of pain relief.
Learn how Tyrian purple textiles found in Roman York burials are reshaping what historians know about wealth, trade, and infant mourning in Roman Britain.