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WEB5 days ago · The Golden Age of Offbeat Arctic Research. By Paul Bierman Sep 06. If you would like to help support our journalism, please consider making a donation. All proceeds go directly to Undark’s editorial fund. Undark is a non-profit, editorially independent magazine covering the complicated and often fractious intersection of science and society.
As Offshore Wind Ramps Up, Scientists Flag Potential Impacts
WEBAug 21, 2023 · L ast year, the Biden administration announced an ambitious goal: enough offshore wind to power 10 million homes by 2030. The move would reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, and strengthen energy security. It would also help the United States — which was responsible for just 0.1 percent of the world’s offshore wind capacity last year — catch up with renewable energy leaders like China ...
The Scramble to Defuse the ‘Feral Swine Bomb’ - Undark Magazine
WEBSep 14, 2020 · Canada doesn’t have comparable data, but Ryan Brook, a University of Saskatchewan biologist who researches wild pigs, predicts that they will occupy 386,000 square miles across the country by the end of 2020, and they’re currently expanding at about 35,000 square miles a year. “I’ve heard it referred to as a feral swine bomb,” says ...
Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science
WEBDec 12, 2022 · LONG DIVISION is an ongoing journalistic project by Undark Magazine, published by the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, that examines the fraught legacy of race science.The multipart series, supported in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, grew out of a workshop held in June 2022 at Harvard University, which brought together journalists, science historians, and other ...
Opinion: Don’t Ask AI to Make Life-and-Death Decisions - Undark …
WEB08.08.2024. Sometimes, AI really can be a matter of life and death. Last year, a Belgian man tragically ended his life after allegedly being persuaded to do so by a chatbot. In the Netherlands, there’s an ongoing debate over whether to allow the use of artificial intelligence, or AI, to support decisions around doctor-assisted suicide.
Breathing Life Into the Corpse Flower - Undark Magazine
WEBJan 11, 2021 · T he alien-like blooms and putrid stench of Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the corpse flower, draw big crowds and media coverage to botanical gardens each year.In 2015, for instance, around 75,000 people visited the Chicago Botanic Garden to see one of their corpse flowers bloom. More than 300,000 people viewed it online. But despite the corpse flower’s fame, its future is uncertain.
Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head
WEBMar 6, 2024 · Berridge retired from the agency in the spring of 2023, upset by the handling of the fluoride report. “That’s not the way I want to do science,” he said. “So I decided to do something different.”. Fluoride strengthens teeth because teeth are like living rocks: tissue sheathed in a mesh of crystals called enamel.
How Radar Is Helping Track Down Lost Indigenous Grave Sites
WEBMar 28, 2022 · Indigenous groups in Canada and the U.S. are using ground penetrating radar to look for burial sites at former schools. Top: A staked child’s dress blows in the wind on Highway 5 in June 2021, near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School where signs of unmarked children’s graves have been found. Visual: Cole Burston / AFP via Getty ...
At the Salton Sea, Uncovering the Culprit of Lung Disease
WEB08.19.2024. When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells and pulverized fish bones; the abandoned dock far from the water’s edge; the unremitting smell of decay. It was like a scene from a science fiction movie, recalled the 66-year-old ...
For Forest Blazes Grown Wilder, an Alternative: The ‘Good Fire’
WEBOct 25, 2021 · Desautel and his community have been especially skilled fire-tree matchmakers, deliberately lighting the kind of a fire a pine forest craves through a practice called prescribed burning, also known as “good fire.”. And good fire actually helps protect forests, by giving trees like Ponderosas a sort of healthy pruning that allows them to ...
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