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James Webb Telescope and Pillars of Creation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NASA)

Bringing the universe into focus

Mark Wolverton - Undark
Bacteriophage, illustration (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Curious history of life-saving viruses

Amber Dance - Undark
Mars habitat landscape (Getty Images/CoreyFord)

Are we ready to head to Mars? Maybe not

Christie Aschwanden - Undark
(Getty/George Clerk)

A memoir in praise of complex science

Mark Harris - Undark
3D render of a man with strong pain in head (Getty Images/peterschreiber.media)

Unlocking the mysteries of pain

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Rusted manhole cover in the cement of an abandoned street (Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The past, present, and future of poop

Jenny Morber - Undark
(Getty/Marija Jovovic)

Demystifying the idea of consciousness

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

How vermin helped shape the modern world

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Brain with a futuristic graphical user interface in network connection space (Getty Images)

Book review: Pinker's "Rationality"

Dan Falk - Undark
Doctor examining scan (Getty Images)

Review: illnesses influenced by culture

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
The Green Bank Telescope is seen in Green Bank, West Virginia on May 28, 2018. Green Bank is part of the US Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless telecommunications signals are banned to prevent transmissions interfering with a number of radio telescopes in the area. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The mirage of a town without cellphones

Sarah Scoles - Undark
An Emergency Room RN tends to a patient in a hallway at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital on August 18, 2021 in Houston, Texas. (Getty Images)

COVID as seen from the emergency room

Jamie Herndon - Undark
A large polar bear getting ready jump of a small piece of ice (Getty Images)

Reimagining our duty to wild animals

Rachel Nuwer - Undark
Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy using an instrument like an ice pick which he invented for the procedure. Inserting the instrument under the upper eyelid of the patient, Dr. Freeman cuts nerve connections in the front part of the brain. (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

Book review: When scientists break bad

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
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Mental illness informs brain science

Elizabeth Landau - Undark
Stephen Hawking (Getty/Bruno Vincent)

A humanizing portrait of Stephen Hawking

Dan Falk - Undark
(Getty Images)

One town’s struggle with health care

Jaime R. Herndon - Undark
(Getty/stevanovicigor)

The next frontier of warfare is online

Mark Wolverton - Undark
Looking at Pompeii from above (Getty Images)

The rise and fall of ancient cities

Susan Cosier - Undark
A herd of Plains Bison or buffalo grazing in Grand Teton Natonal Park in Wyoming, USA. (Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The evolution of conservation

Rachel Love Nuwer - Undark
An employee poses with a pipe used to carrying liquid CO2 on September 08, 2008 at the "Schwarze Pumpe" ("Black Pump") power station run by Europe's biggest power company Vattenfall in Werder near Berlin. In a similar manner, Summit Carbon Solutions, a spinoff of an Iowa-based agricultural company, recently announced it is developing a $2 billion pipeline project that will carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol refineries scattered across the Midwest to a site in North Dakota where it will be pumped thousands of feet underground. (MICHAEL URBAN/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Disastrous attempts to control nature

John Schwartz - Undark
Catch And Kill by Ronan Farrow (Little, Brown and Company/AP Photo/Salon)

Farrow's "Catch and Kill" high-wire act

Erin Keane
"The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke" by Andrew Lawler (Getty/Hulton Archive/Penguin Random House)

Why the far right loves Roanoke

Matthew Rozsa
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein (Getty/Josh Edelson)

Silicon Valley's dark heart

Keith A. Spencer
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