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Animals

Two Marsupials Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Have Been Found Alive in the Forests of New Guinea

In one of the most astonishing wildlife rediscoveries in recent memory, two marsupial species — a pygmy long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed gl…

March 21, 2026 · marsupial · extinct species

Medicine

Chile Has Become the First Country in the Americas to Officially Eliminate Leprosy

The World Health Organization has officially verified Chile as having eliminated leprosy — making it the first country in the Americas, and only …

March 21, 2026 · leprosy · Chile

Medicine

Scientists Grew Fully Functional Hair Follicles in a Lab for the First Time — and They Naturally Cycle Through Growth

US and Japanese researchers have cracked a longstanding puzzle in biotech: growing hair follicles in the lab that actually work. By identifying a…

March 21, 2026 · hair loss · hair follicle

Animals

For the First Time in History, Insects Have Legal Rights — Peruvian Amazon's Stingless Bees

In a world first, stingless bees in the Peruvian Amazon have been granted legal rights — the first insects ever to receive this status. Local ord…

March 21, 2026 · bees · stingless bees

Medicine

Stopping Ozempic Doesn't Mean the Weight Comes Back — A Major Study Just Proved It

A new Cleveland Clinic study of nearly 8,000 real-world patients found that 45% of people who stopped taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic either main…

March 21, 2026 · Ozempic · GLP-1

Animals

The Critically Endangered Sawfish Is Making a Quiet Comeback — In a Lagoon Smaller Than Vatican City

Florida Atlantic University researchers have confirmed that critically endangered smalltooth sawfish juveniles are thriving in a nursery area of …

March 21, 2026 · sawfish · Indian River Lagoon

Science

Scientists Are Saving the World's Bananas From Extinction — and the First Disease-Proof Trees Go in the Ground in 2027

UK biotech company Tropic has raised $105 million to deploy the first commercial gene-edited Cavendish bananas resistant to the TR4 fungus that t…

March 21, 2026 · banana · TR4

Science

Scientists Just Discovered a Hidden 48-Dimensional World Inside Entangled Light — Opening a New Alphabet for Quantum Computing

Researchers have uncovered extraordinarily complex topological structures hidden within entangled light beams — structures existing in 48 dimensi…

March 21, 2026 · quantum computing · quantum entanglement

Climate change

Australia Is Creating a 476,000-Hectare National Park to Save Its Koalas — Legislation Coming in 2026

New South Wales is forming the Great Koala National Park — 476,000 hectares of protected forest stretching from Kempsey to Grafton — with logging…

March 21, 2026 · koala · national park

Science

The World Register of Marine Species Just Named Its Ten Most Remarkable New Animals of 2025 — Including a Darth Vader Isopod

The World Register of Marine Species has published its annual Top 10 list of newly described marine creatures from 2025, featuring a giant deep-s…

March 21, 2026 · marine biology · new species

Medicine

Scientists Engineered a Bacteria to Sneak Into Tumours and Make Cancer Drugs From the Inside

Researchers have reprogrammed the probiotic bacterium E. coli Nissle 1917 to infiltrate solid tumours in mice and produce the FDA-approved antica…

March 21, 2026 · cancer · bacteria

Medicine

Psilocybin Just Passed Its Second Phase 3 Trial for Treatment-Resistant Depression — FDA Filing Planned for Late 2026

Compass Pathways' COMP360 synthetic psilocybin has now passed two pivotal Phase 3 trials for treatment-resistant depression, meeting primary endp…

March 21, 2026 · psilocybin · depression

Medicine

Tiny Magnetic Microrobots Can Now Navigate to Tumours, Track Themselves in Real Time, and Destroy Cancer Cells With Heat — All in One Device

Michigan State University, Henry Ford Health, and Arizona State University have developed TriMag — microrobots smaller than a human hair that com…

March 21, 2026 · microrobot · cancer

Climate change

Fourteen Maya Women in a Small Mexican Fishing Village Restored a Dead Mangrove Forest — and Brought the Flamingos Back

In the small coastal village of Chelem, Mexico, a group of fourteen Maya women called 'Las Chelemeras' spent fifteen years restoring a dead mangr…

March 21, 2026 · mangroves · flamingos

Technology

Scientists Built Robots That Evolve, Self-Assemble, and Refuse to Die — Even When Cut in Half

Northwestern University engineers have created 'legged metamachines' — modular Lego-like robots that snap together into novel forms evolved by AI…

March 21, 2026 · robotics · Northwestern University

Medicine

A Single Injection of Engineered Brain Cells Cleared Half of Alzheimer's Plaques in Mice — Published in Science

Washington University scientists engineered astrocytes — the brain's most abundant support cells — with the same CAR 'homing device' used in canc…

March 21, 2026 · Alzheimer's · CAR astrocyte

Climate change

Death Valley Is Carpeted in Wildflowers for the First Time in a Decade — the Superbloom Has Arrived

Death Valley National Park is experiencing its most spectacular wildflower superbloom since 2016, triggered by over a year's worth of rainfall be…

March 22, 2026 · Death Valley · superbloom

World

Today Is World Water Day — and the Data Shows: Where Women Lead Water Systems, Communities Thrive

World Water Day 2026's theme is 'Water and Gender: Where water flows, equality grows.' New research across 44 water projects shows communities wi…

March 22, 2026 · World Water Day · water