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Nine private funders announced the Species Recovery Alliance at COP17, committing more than $500 million over five years to species classed as extinct in the wild, critically endangered, or endangered. Here is what the pledge covers, how it sits beside total nature funding, and what the sources do not yet say.

MIT engineers used targeted nanoparticles to reprogram natural killer cells inside living mice, with no lab manufacturing step. The cells cleared lymphoma, sent 3 of 5 melanoma mice into remission, and healed liver damage in an autoimmune model. Here is what the mouse results show and what human trials still need to prove.

A University of Sydney review of more than 70 conservation success stories found three conditions they share, from coral reefs in Papua New Guinea to albatross in Tasmania. Here is what the review shows, and what it does not yet prove about repeating those successes.

Recorded reef sounds played underwater drew four to 14 times more fish larvae and raised coral settlement near the speaker in Hawai'i's Kāne'ohe Bay. Here is what two Scripps field studies show, and what they leave unproven about rebuilding reefs.

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how reactions can favor one mirror image of a molecule. Here is what that work means for drug making, and what it leaves unsolved about why life uses one handedness.

Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube, a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice wired with 5,160 sensors. Here is how a 1988 sketch became a working neutrino telescope, and what it has yet to explain.