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Topic: Science (page 24)

The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) (Getty Images/ErikKarits)

Mutant roaches go on a sugar diet

Pamela Appea
Fireworks in the shape of smiling faces are sent during the Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 9, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

The science of ‘shape’ fireworks

Nicole Karlis
(Getty Images/cavan Images Rf)

An AI learns how to do chemistry

Marc Zimmer - The Conversation
Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

How drugs know where to go in the body

Tom Anchordoquy - The Conversation
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UFO in flight above urban park (Getty Images/ Ray Massey)

NASA is putting together a UFO team

Matthew Rozsa
At the University of Minnesota's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, the door to the lab where the first step is taken in the testing of samples for the monkeypox virus has a warning sign to let others know not to enter. (JUDY GRIESEDIECK/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

The challenges of calculating a lab leak

Michael Schulson - Undark
Jordan Peterson addresses students at The Cambridge Union on November 02, 2018 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. (Chris Williamson/Getty Images)

Academia has a "race science" problem

Christopher T. Conner, Marcus Weinman
Space warp travels through the universe (Getty Images/pixelparticle)

Interstellar travel via nomad planets?

Nicole Karlis
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Student sitting in class (Getty Images/lisapics)

When perfect math meets a broken world

Daniel Rockmore
(Wikimedia)

The chicken misconception

Justin Gregg
Velociraptor dinosaur in lush green jungle (Getty Images/Chris Clor)

The warm-blooded dino debate — solved

Matthew Rozsa
Close-up of a stretched smile (Getty Images/Niels Busch)

No one can tell you're acting fake

Matthew Rozsa
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Typing code on a laptop computer (Getty Images)

"Stealth research” hurts good science

Jeffrey Lee Funk, Gary N. Smith
Artist's interpretation of habitable alien planets, a distant star system (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Are we looking for aliens the wrong way?

Nicole Karlis
Three cats in a sunny meadow playing on the grass, standing/dancing on their hind legs (Getty Images/Nataba)

Cats know each other's names: study

Matthew Rozsa
Aerial view, looking northwest, across part of NASA's Manned Space Center (later renamed the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center) campus, Houston, Texas, 1960s. (NASA/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

"Cambridge, we have a problem"

Robert Buderi
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3D render of a man with strong pain in head (Getty Images/peterschreiber.media)

Unlocking the mysteries of pain

Emily Cataneo - Undark
A field of stag-horn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

There is hope for coral reefs

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
(Getty/MarkMalleson)

What killer whales need from humans

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Green liquid spilled from test tube (Getty Images/mrdoggs)

How the far right co-opted science

Christopher T. Conner
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Angry chihuahua growling (Getty Images/Cris Cantón)

A dog's breed doesn't influence behavior

Eric Schank
Broken beaker glass in science laboratory (Getty Images)

Risk aversion is ruining science

Paul M. Sutter - Undark
Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., walks down the House steps at the Capitol after the last votes of the week on Friday, April 1, 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Gaetz inaccurate diagnosis of insulin

Colleen DeGuzman, Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
A health worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine to a woman at a vaccination center run by Amgaon Primary Health Center, which serves the tribal villages of the Talasari region in India. (Photo by Puja Changoiwala for Undark.)

Puja Changoiwala
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