Opinion: Caring for Patients from Conflict Zones - undark.org
Dec 12, 2024 · I n recent months, I’ve taken a growing interest in reading the accounts of health care workers from conflict zones, areas of the world caught in a crossfire of warring factions, where men, women, and children bear the collateral damage wrought by bombs and bullets. Health care workers’ harrowing stories are some of the most unvarnished ones we have to hear, and as a physician myself, I ...
The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?
Nov 26, 2024 · O n e bluebird day in 2021, employees of Fortem Technologies traveled to a flat piece of Utah desert. The land was a good spot to try the company’s new innovation: an attachment for the DroneHunter — which, as the name halfway implies, is a …
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Jan 17, 2025 · 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 …
Book Review: A Reverent Tribute to Disappearing Creatures
Dec 27, 2024 · W riters whose subject is the natural world, and the overwhelming changes that humans have inflicted upon it, grapple regularly with a maddening dilemma: how to convey that all hope is not lost, while presenting facts that can bear down on hope like an avalanche.. Hope is often fundamental to action, essential for rousing readers out of complacency; despair, meanwhile, can be an unhelpful ...
Book Review: Why the Medical Establishment Often Gets It Wrong
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 changed about a decade ago after he read a research study that found antibiotics may be an effective alternative. Despite subsequent research confirming that appendectomies can often be avoided, Makary estimates only ...
Book Review: Bringing the Universe Into Ever-Sharper Focus
Dec 6, 2024 · T he phrase Pillars of Creation became popular in 1995 when it was used to describe a striking deep space photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The pillars are enormous formations of interstellar gas and dust in a star-forming region of the Eagle Nebula in the Serpens constellation, thousands of light years from Earth.
The Burgeoning Science of Search and Rescue - Undark Magazine
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 chemical engineering student, had stopped in Glacier while driving home to Michigan, and the pine-surrounded path he embarked on was known for its big views of the Livingston Range, a set of jagged peaks to the east.
Environmental DNA Is Everywhere. Scientists Want It All. - Undark …
Feb 12, 2024 · eDNA serves as a surveillance tool, offering researchers a means of detecting the seemingly undetectable. By sampling eDNA, or mixtures of genetic material — that is, fragments of DNA, the blueprint of life — in water, soil, ice cores, cotton swabs, or practically any environment imaginable, even thin air, it is now possible to search for a specific organism or assemble a snapshot of all ...
Podcast: Is the Misinformation Crisis Overblown? - undark.org
Dec 9, 2024 · W elcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild ask: Is the misinformation crisis overblown? It’s a question that some observers may be surprised to hear, but researchers don’t always agree on how widespread false information actually is — and how much it truly affects us.
Maybe She’s Just Tired, Maybe It’s Undiagnosed Iron Deficiency
Aug 26, 2024 · A bout three years ago, Soumya Rangarajan struggled day after day with exhaustion, headaches, and heart palpitations. As a frontline hospital doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic, she first attributed her symptoms to the demands of an …