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.

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...

On a chilly morning in early December 2017, attorney Anthony Spaniola awakened at his cabin on Van Etten Lake in Oscoda, Michigan, to the sight of billowy white froth bobbing along the shore. He ...