Undark
Articles republished from Undark Magazine
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Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters The Hidden Dispute Over Biodiversity’s Health Benefits
News coverage routinely claims that conservation efforts dilute the spread of disease, but the issue is far from settled science.
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Sunday Alamba / AP The Threat of Polio in the Badlands of Boko Haram
The last vestiges of the devastating virus persist where terrorists stop vaccines from reaching babies and children.
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rolfo / Getty Do Cultural Differences Change What Depression Feels Like?
The contrasting ways Chinese people and Westerners express symptoms could point to distinct experiences of the same disorder.
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China Stringer Network / Reuters The Dystopian Fear of Artificial Wombs
Science-fiction concerns about neonatal-care technology can obscure its true challenges and limitations.
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Josep Lago / Stringer / Getty How Well Do Health Trackers Really Work for Managing Chronic Conditions?
Advances in technology only help if patients will use them, and the evidence shows that oftentimes, they won’t.
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Brent Stirton / Getty How Arsenic Is Poisoning a Nation
Despite simple solutions, a fourth of Bangladesh’s population is still exposed to drinking water contaminated with the deadly element.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Was America's Star Atomic-Bomb Reporter a Propagandist?
A journalist hired by the Manhattan Project to write vivid stories about the bomb has long been a mysterious and controversial figure.
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K-State Communications and Marketing Photography The Wheat Disease Threatening Asia's Food Supply
Farmers are struggling to control a deadly fungus that jumped two oceans and now has U.S. scientists on guard.
