Ari Daniel
Ari Daniel is a freelance contributor to NPR's Science desk.
He has always been drawn to science and the natural world. As a graduate student, he trained gray seal pups (Halichoerus grypus) for his Master's degree in animal behavior at the University of St. Andrews, and helped tag wild Norwegian killer whales (Orcinus orca) for his Ph.D. in biological oceanography at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. For more than a decade, as a science reporter and multimedia producer, he has interviewed a species he's better equipped to understand — Homo sapiens.
He has reported across six continents on science topics ranging from astronomy to zooxanthellae. His radio pieces have aired on NPR, The World, Radiolab and Here & Now, and he contributes stories to the New York Times. He formerly worked as a reporter for NPR's Science desk where he covered global health and development. Before that, he was the Senior Digital Producer at NOVA where he helped oversee the production of the show's digital video content. He is a co-recipient of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for his radio stories on glaciers and climate change in Greenland and Iceland.
In the fifth grade, he won the "Most Contagious Smile" award.
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The accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the nation's leading infectious disease expert, have some experts worrying that these events may further erode public health staffing in the U.S. -
Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment while appearing before a committee chaired by Sen. Rand Paul. Now, the senator is saying he will move to hold Fauci in contempt.
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At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Anthony Fauci is likely to face questions from Sen. Rand Paul related to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's what you need to know -
Sen. Rand Paul has released a tranche of Dr. Anthony Fauci's diary entries from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci is set to appear before a Senate committee Wednesday on the origins of the coronavirus. -
For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize. -
Some studies suggest tens of thousands have perished due to USAID disappearing. we bring two stories of children who got sick from usually preventable illnesses in areas where funding was reduced.
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Researchers have developed a new kind of robot that flies through the air, swims through the water, and transitions between the two realms.
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The larvae of a beetle native to South and Central America, the critters are the perfect solution to sticky problem: How to prepare an animal skeleton for scientific use. -
Both Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, who led the effort to sunset the foreign aid agency, have said that no deaths have been linked to the cutting of its funding. These parents tell a different story. -
In this roundup of space news, we talk about sugar molecules in space, a call for volunteers for a simulated Moon/Mars mission and next steps for NASA's New Horizons probe.
