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Getting the Shingles Vaccine Cuts Your Risk of a Serious Heart Attack by 46% — And That's Just the Start

A major study of over 246,000 adults with heart disease has found that those who received the shingles vaccine had a 46% lower rate of major card…

March 21, 2026 · shingles vaccine · heart attack

Animals

India's Last Wild Lions Have Tripled in 40 Years — And Their Range Is Larger Than Ever

The 2025 census of India's Asiatic lions in the Gir landscape confirms a population of 891 individuals — up 32% from 2020 and nearly triple the n…

March 21, 2026 · Asiatic lion · India

Medicine

An AI Trained on 50,000 CT Scans Can Now Predict Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Osteoporosis — 5 Years Before Symptoms Appear

Stanford researchers have developed Merlin, an AI foundation model trained on over 15,000 abdominal CT scans that can predict the onset of chroni…

March 20, 2026 · AI · CT scan

Science

Panasonic Just Achieved 34.5% Solar Efficiency — Leaping Past the Theoretical Silicon Ceiling

In March 2026, Panasonic announced a 34.5% power conversion efficiency for its perovskite-silicon tandem solar panels — a landmark that breezes p…

March 20, 2026 · solar energy · perovskite

Animals

Brazil Is Reintroducing Vaccinated Brown Howler Monkeys to Its Urban Atlantic Forest — And It's Working

After a devastating yellow fever outbreak wiped out vast numbers of howler monkeys across Brazil's Atlantic Forest, conservationists developed a …

March 20, 2026 · howler monkey · Brazil

Medicine

A Pill Just Cut Sleep Apnea Events by 47% — And Could Replace CPAP Machines for Millions

A randomised clinical trial published in The Lancet found that sulthiame, a repurposed epilepsy drug, reduced breathing interruptions in sleep ap…

March 20, 2026 · sleep apnea · sulthiame

Animals

Scientists Just Found the World's Largest Turtle Nesting Site — 41,000 Giant Turtles on a Single River

Using drones and statistical modelling, researchers from the University of Florida and Wildlife Conservation Society have identified the largest …

March 20, 2026 · turtle · Amazon

Climate change

Brazil Just Created Its Largest Marine Park — Protecting Rare Dolphins, Sharks, and Ice Age Fossils

On March 6, 2026, Brazil established the Albardão Marine Park off the coast of Rio Grande do Sul — a protected area of over 1 million hectares sa…

March 20, 2026 · marine park · Brazil

Animals

The Bearded Vulture Was Gone From the Alps for 70 Years. Now There Are 118 Wild Birds — and the Oldest One Just Turned 37.

Decades after local extinction, bearded vultures have returned to the Alps in force: 118 wild individuals, 100+ breeding pairs, and a bird named …

March 20, 2026 · bearded vulture · Alps

Animals

Rhinos Have Returned to Uganda's Kidepo Valley — For the First Time Since 1983

Four southern white rhinos have been relocated from the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to Kidepo Valley National Park in northeastern Uganda, where the spe…

March 20, 2026 · rhino · Uganda

Science

A Wildflower on the Brink of Extinction Evolved to Survive — And Scientists Just Watched It Happen

The scarlet monkeyflower faced an extinction-level drought in California. Instead of dying out, populations of the flower rapidly evolved new gen…

March 20, 2026 · evolution · scarlet monkeyflower

Science

Scientists Just Solved a Mystery That Has Stumped Physicists for Centuries: Why Does Static Electricity Build Up?

New research published in March 2026 has finally explained one of the most confusing phenomena in everyday physics: how two objects made of the s…

March 20, 2026 · static electricity · physics

Animals

The Saiga Antelope Collapsed to 50,000 After a Mass Die-Off. There Are Nearly 4 Million Now.

Once teetering on the edge of extinction after a catastrophic die-off killed 200,000 animals in a single month, Kazakhstan's saiga antelope popul…

March 20, 2026 · saiga antelope · Kazakhstan

Science

Scientists Exploring the Deep South Atlantic Found 28 Possible New Species in a Single Expedition

Marine biologists exploring an uncharted seamount off Argentina have returned with specimens of 28 possible new species — including strange sea s…

March 20, 2026 · deep sea · new species

Animals

An Endangered Ocelot Was Caught on Camera in Texas — Then Found to Be Pregnant

A male ocelot was photographed drinking at a birding station in a South Texas wildlife refuge — and separate research confirmed a pregnant female…

March 20, 2026 · ocelot · endangered species

Animals

Mountain Gorillas Are the Only Great Ape Whose Numbers Are Growing — And They Just Crossed 1,000

Mountain gorillas — once teetering on the edge of extinction — have now surpassed 1,063 individuals across the Virunga Massif and Bwindi Impenetr…

March 20, 2026 · mountain gorillas · great apes

Animals

This Mysterious Night Bird Was Disappearing From England. Patient Habitat Restoration Just Doubled Its Numbers.

The European nightjar — a master of camouflage that hunts by moonlight — has doubled in population across Sussex's South Downs National Park over…

March 20, 2026 · nightjar · South Downs

Medicine

A Patient's Own Cells Repaired Their Parkinson's-Damaged Brain — No Immune Suppression Required

In one of the most promising Parkinson's disease trial results ever presented, eight patients treated with sasineprocel — a personalised stem cel…

March 20, 2026 · Parkinson's disease · stem cell therapy