Health and Medicine Can medicine stop malaria? Scientists wanted to find out if mass drug administration is an effective tool for malaria control.
Biodiversity and Conservation How do bees choose what to eat? Researchers wanted to know if honey bees, and especially nurse bees, can evaluate the quality of the pollen and pick out the most nutritious one.
Health and Medicine How can we keep kids from dying from diarrhea? Shigellosis is a disease which kills more than half a million people every year. Scientists wanted to test the reliability of current Shigella diagnostics methods in Africa.
Biodiversity and Conservation How can vultures and wind farms co-exist? Wind turbines sometimes injure vultures flying by. Researchers are looking for ways to solve this problem.
Health and Medicine What difference do cleaner burning cookstoves make? Scientists wanted to check if cleaner-burning stoves helped improve children’s health in Malawi. The results surprised them.
Biodiversity and Conservation Palm oil is everywhere – but where did it come from? Scientists determine which parts of the world are most at risk for losing their forests and wildlife due to palm oil plantations.