Nov 1, 2024 · L ike 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 …

Dec 23, 2024 · I n March 2013, a 27-year-old man showed up at the Fifth People’s Hospital in Shanghai, China, with a high fever and cough. Within 48 hours, he was admitted to the …

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Jan 22, 2024 · O n May 5, 2023, a 19-year-old hiker named Matthew Read headed out on a roughly 12-mile trek in an underpopulated part of Glacier National Park in Montana. Read, a …

Jan 27, 2025 · Corruption in science? Academic discrimination? Research censorship? Government cover-ups? Undark wants to hear about it. Email us at [email protected] or visit …

Dec 23, 2024 · W elcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild ask: Is fluoride toxic at low levels? The history of the mineral is scattered with …

Jan 23, 2025 · D onald Trump has a thing for Greenland. First, he wanted to buy the Arctic island. Then, his son visited for a photo-op. Now, he refuses to rule out using the U.S. military to seize …

Jan 16, 2025 · In December, 37 colleagues and I published a paper in Science arguing that mirror bacteria — self-replicating, synthetic cells whose every component exists in its mirror-image …

Dec 30, 2024 · Brooke Borel: Welcome to Entanglements, the show where we usually dig into the biggest scientific debates in the news today. I’m Brooke Borel, Articles Editor at Undark. Anna …

Nov 12, 2024 · Top: A mangled car sits in a forest burned by a wildfire in July 2024, near Lyman, Ukraine. Explosions from weapons have caused wildfires, but the absence of logging during …