In Japan, Conserving the Genetics of a Sacred Deer (undark.org)
A Transparent, Open-Source Vision for U.S. Elections (undark.org)
Book Review: How Our Roads Have Become an Invasive Species (undark.org)
How the World’s Deadliest Crises Go Unseen (undark.org)
The Burgeoning Science of Search and Rescue (undark.org)
By analyzing reports of people who got off-track, researchers are advancing the science of “lost person behavior.”...
Advances in Mind-Decoding Technologies Raise Hopes (and Worries) - Devices that connect brains to computers are increasingly sophisticated. Can the nascent neurorights movement catch up? (undark.org)
OPINION: Are We Having a Moral Panic Over Misinformation? (undark.org)
“I don’t like this whole talk of ‘we’re living in a post-truth world,’ as if we ever lived in a truth world”...
Book Review: How Our Roads Have Become an Invasive Species (undark.org)
Inside The Small World of Simulating Other Worlds (undark.org)
Can MDMA Therapy Ease the World's Traumas? Critics Aren't Sure. (undark.org)
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Interview: Treating Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis (undark.org)
How the Yurok Tribe Is Bringing Back the California Condor (undark.org)
The reintroduction of the long-lived, highly social birds has offered insight into the importance of parenting in the species.
Amid Indian Nationalism, Pseudoscience Seeps Into Academia (undark.org)
In recent years, falsehoods have spread to institutions, where the next generation of scientists are being educated.
Discovered in Collections, Many New Species are Already Gone (undark.org)
Species discoveries can be joyous occasions, but not in this case. Eastern African forests have nearly disappeared in the past century, and neither bee species has been spotted in surveys conducted in the area since the 1990s, noted coauthor and entomologist Michael Engel, who recently moved from a position at the University of...
Interview: The Ethical Puzzle of Sentient AI (undark.org)
In Ukraine, a Long Road to Rebuild the Scientific Community (undark.org)
A year after scientific academies called for rebuilding the country’s intellectual infrastructure, not much has changed.
Scientists Warned of a Salton Sea Disaster. No One Listened. (undark.org)
California's Salton Sea offers a tableau of dead wildlife, toxic dust, and neglect. It was long in the making....