UNDARK

UNDARK

The name Undark comes from a historical blend of science and business that led to the creation of a radium-infused product known as Undark, which was both fascinating and, as later research revealed, harmful and dangerous. We choose this name to indicate to our readers that our magazine will delve into science not merely as an impressive spectacle, but as a complex, sometimes controversial, and at times unsettling aspect of human culture.

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  • 1 week ago | undark.org | Sara Talpos

    Earlier this year, a biomedical researcher at the University of Michigan received an update from the National Institutes of Health. The federal agency, which funds a large swath of the country’s medical science, had given the greenlight to begin releasing funding for the upcoming year on the researcher’s multi-year grant. Not long after, the researcher learned that the university had placed the grant on hold.

  • 1 week ago | undark.org | Molly Taft

    Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the second-largest source of CO2 emissions in the country, claiming that the American power sector does not “contribute significantly” to air pollution. “The bottom line is that the EPA is trying to get out of the climate change business,” says Ryan Maher, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.

  • 1 week ago | undark.org | Emma Foehringer Merchant

    The lab buildings of Long Island’s renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have hosted researchers responsible for some of the most consequential scientific leaps in human genetics and disease. In the last 60 years, eight of the lab’s scientists have earned Nobel Prizes, including for work on how viruses replicate, on chromosome structure, and how edited genes can cause disease.

  • 2 weeks ago | undark.org | Jessica Wapner

    By age 43, Ofelia, who lived in the hills north of Medellín, Colombia, could no longer hold down a job because of the mistakes she made. She started collecting garbage and bringing it home for no apparent reason. She lost the ability to write words; all she could manage were senseless doodles. She died in 1996 at the age of 44, just as science was uncovering the cause of her early-onset, rapidly progressing dementia.

  • 2 weeks ago | undark.org | Sara Talpos

    Last week, the growing tension between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk exploded into public view when Musk took aim at the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The legislation, which calls for sweeping changes to taxes and spending, is currently before the Senate. Somewhat lost in the hullabaloo was a new analysis by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.