Mizani, a 12-year-old male western lowland gorilla at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, underwent a first-of-its-kind mastoidectomy to treat an infection that had spread into portions of his skull. The surgery was performed by a multidisciplinary team of wildlife health experts from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and surgeons from UC San Diego Health.

Virginia Tech researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to help policymakers manage growing competition between agriculture and semiconductor manufacturing, as drough strains water supplies across the United States.

The American Ornithological Society (AOS) today announced our 2026 Kessel Fellowships for Ornithological Research for early-career researchers. The AOS Kessel Fellowship funding supports the full range of ornithological research by early-career scientists currently published in peer-reviewed journals, such as avian biology, ecology, behavior, conservation, genetics, and interdisciplinary work. One arctic research 2026 Kessel Fellowship of $30,000 was awarded to Dr. Audrey Le Pogam; and six individual $15,000 fellowships were awarded to Drs. Carrie Ann Adams, David Diez-Méndez, Jennifer L. Houtz, Abby Kimmitt, Amy Yanagitsuru, and Laura E. Nuñez-Rosas to support their ornithological research projects.

A scientist based in New Zealand has investigated what happened to chimpanzees studied in psychology experiments last century.

Kyoto, Japan -- When locals of two coastal communities along the Sea of Japan reported observations of dolphins in nearby waters, it caught the attention of some scientists. The marine environment has been changing rapidly in the Sea of Japan, which is partially enclosed by the Japanese archipelago and the Eurasian continent and connected to the ocean through shallow straits. Though sightings and bycatch records of dolphins have been reported along the coast, basic ecological information on small odontocetes, such as dolphins and porpoises, has remained limited.

Once they heard about dolphin sightings in both Obama City on Wakasa Bay and Tsushima City on Aso Bay, a team of researchers at Kyoto University headed there to investigate. They wanted to know how these upper-level predators use areas like Wakasa Bay and Aso Bay, and what kinds of sounds they produce.

"This study began through local connections: we heard from acquaintances and local fishers that dolphins might be visiting nearby waters," says first author Satoko S Kimura.

POSTECH Professor Jonghun Kam’s research team, in collaboration with KRIHS, NDMI, Stanford University, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), presents AI-based, region-specific water conservation scenarios using drought news data.