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 social and political impacts of storms, floods, and heat waves are often transient and short-lived, experts say.

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

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

Over the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, ...

Please note that Undark’s long-running podcast was discontinued in the summer of 2022. You can find all of our archived episodes below.

In the summer of 2017, when communication professor Jeffery Gentry moved from Oklahoma to accept a position at Eastern New Mexico University, he was pleasantly surprised to find it easier to get up in ...