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.

The Florida law was passed in 2018 after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland in which 17 students ...

New nuclear-capable planes and upgrades to old equipment are coming. Will they deter warfare or lead to an arms race?

The Undark Podcast is returning with a new format and a new name: Entanglements. Tune in starting Monday, November 11.

Living things began tracking the incremental passage of time long before the human-made clock lent its hands. As life grew in harmony with the sun’s daily march through the sky, and with the seasons, ...

It was a monumental disaster. The dynamiting of the Kakhovka dam on Ukraine’s Dnieper River just before dawn on June 6 last year rapidly emptied Europe’s largest hydroelectric reservoir. Some 14 ...

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

Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in "The Living Medicine." ...