News

  1. Animals

    Keeping a beat wins caterpillars friends in low places

    Finding a caterpillar with rhythm was “mind-blowing,” suggesting it might be a more widespread part of animal communication than thought.

    By Jake Buehler
  2. Life

    An African monkey ate a rope squirrel and came down with mpox

    Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty mangabeys in Côte d’Ivoire.

    By Erin Garcia de Jesús
  3. Health & Medicine

    A lab on wheels is tracking HIV spread in war-torn Ukraine

    During a test drive, the mobile lab van uncovered a drug-resistant HIV strain that sprung up after the ongoing war with Russia started.