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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
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

Why the UN climate report gives me hope

Sarah Burch - Undark
African Gray Parrot (Getty Images/Enrique Aguirre Aves)

Norway is killing confiscated wildlife

Jonathan Moens - Undark
Large open air phosphogypsum waste storage (Getty Images/bbsferrari)

Alarming mountains of fertilizer waste

Bianca Fortis - Undark
(Getty Images)

A plea for mental health care reform

Joshua C. Kendall - Undark
A Six Nation police officer uses a ground-penetrating radar machine on the grounds of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School, in Brantford, Canada, November 9, 2021, as the search for remains begins. - A search began Tuesday for more unmarked graves of students at one of Canada's oldest and longest-running former indigenous residential schools, near Toronto. (COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Radar tracking indigenous grave sites

Diane Peters - Undark
A biohazard symbol on the entrance door of the microbiology laboratory (Getty Images/zmeel)

Do IBCs benefit biomedical research?

Michael Schulson - Undark
Smog over Los Angeles (Getty Images/Robert Landau)

Can fiction save the world?

Mark Johnson - Undark
A captured fisher is released after undergoing sedation and physical examination, a part of the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s longstanding efforts to monitor the culturally important species. (Elizabeth Miller / Undark)

The quest to monitor a rare carnivore

Elizabeth Miller - Undark
A scientist in front of a blackboard filled with formulas and equations (Getty Images/nicolas_)

Academia is failing future scientists

Paul M. Sutter - Undark
Megachile pluto, aka Wallace's Giant Bee (WikiCommons/Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

The parable of the world’s largest bee

Oliver Milman - Undark
The RV Thomas G. Thompson, a research vessel owned and operated by the University of Washington. (Mark Harris for Undark)

Allegations on ill-fated science cruise

Mark Harris - Undark
Set of syringes with medication (Anna Efetova/Getty Images)

The psychology of "nudging"

Bryony Lau - Undark
Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

How to prevent future Covid variants

Michael Rose - Undark
Gavel and medicine (Getty Images)

A doctor takes on Big Pharma

Troy Farah - Undark
Young woman holding birth control pills blister pack (Getty Images/Dimitri Otis)

Birth control side effects elude science

Saima Sidik - Undark
Old wood-burning stove in the kitchen of home (Getty Images/ChiccoDodiFC)

Wood burning stoves spark health issues

Diana Kruzman - Undark
The Liberian-registered oil tanker Goldway berths at Hound Point Oil Terminal on the Forth Estuary, as uncertainty continues in the global oil market as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis (Ken Jack/Getty Images)

Oil exploration threatens marine life

P.K. Read - Undark
Mark Cuban (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

The future of drug pricing

Teresa Carr - Undark
DNA, Atoms and particles (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Genomics' ethical gray areas abroad

Dyna Rochmyaningsih - Undark
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

Are microbes the future of recycling?

Ula Chrobak - Undark
Doctor taking patient's blood pressure (Getty Images/Siri Stafford)

Doctors overlook cure for hypertension

Mary Chris Jaklevic - Undark
Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

Reconsidering opioid treatment

Maia Szalavitz - Undark
Harvard University Professor E.O. Wilson in his office at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. USA. Professor Wilson is a biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. He is considered to be the world's leading authority on the study of ants. (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

New evidence about E.O. Wilson and race

Michael Schulson - Undark
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