In a bid to unearth its own nickel, lithium, and more, the U.S. is using AI to help zero in on mineral-rich deposits.

Some of the country's wartime environmental catastrophes, scientists say, can be turned into long-term ecological gains.

New nuclear-capable planes and upgrades to old equipment are coming. Will they deter warfare or lead to an arms race?

The Florida law was passed in 2018 after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland in which 17 students ...

The Undark Podcast is returning with a new format and a new name: Entanglements. Tune in starting Monday, November 11.

In June, the journal Nature published a perspective suggesting that the harms of online misinformation have been misunderstood. The paper’s authors, representing four universities and Microsoft, ...

Speaking at an Erie, Pennsylvania rally just two days before of the vice presidential debate, former President Donald Trump made a bold statement: Police should be allowed “one really violent day” to ...

Ashley Smart is the associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and a senior editor at Undark.

Like many surgeons, Marty Makary used to routinely treat appendicitis by removing the patient’s appendix, a procedure performed nearly 300,000 times a year in the U.S. That changed about a decade ago ...