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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
Atlantic Salmons in a river (Getty Images)

How Crispr could protect wild salmon

Lisa Abend - Undark
(Getty/sudok1)

Mental illness informs brain science

Elizabeth Landau - Undark
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying 60 Starlink satellites on November 11, 2019 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Starlink constellation will eventually consist of thousands of satellites designed to provide world wide high-speed internet service. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A new space treaty for the 21st century

Ramin Skibba - Undark
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) American writer. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

A poet’s scientific legacy

James Dinneen - Undark
(Getty/RuslanDashinsky)

Umbilical cord screenings & stillbirths

Claire Marie Porter - Undark
The Catalina View Wines vineyard in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA on Monday, July 12, 2021 (Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)

Disease-resistant grapes & wine's future

Agostino Petroni - Undark
A 5th instar Rhodnius pallescens (Kissing Bug) sitting on a hand, engorged after consuming the blood of nearby fauna in Panama. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer K Peterson, PhD / jennipeterson.com)

Lifting the curtain on Chagas disease

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Bears stand by a wall at a bear farm of Guizhentang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd on February 24, 2012 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province of China. The Guizhentang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, which makes medicine using bile extracted from live bears, opened one of its bear farms to the media on Wednesday, to quell growing criticism. (Photo by Getty Images (Stringer/Getty Images)

Medicinal animals in modern China

Rachel Love Nuwer - Undark
Great White Shark cruises through the ocean displaying its power and grace that many people fear. (Getty Images/Cat Gennaro)

Coexisting with sharks in Cape Cod

Sarah Sax - Undark
An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

School boards' COVID response lack logic

Kimberly K. Monroe - Undark
People hold signs at a protest against masks, vaccines, and vaccine passports outside the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on March 13, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. To date, there has been over 534,000 deaths in the U.S. due to covid-19. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

The flawed red-state vaccine narrative

Timothy DeLizza - Undark
Chinchilla (iStock/Getty)

A chinchilla relocation effort stalls

Ed Stoddard - Undark
IDLIB, SYRIA - JULY 02: A Syrian kid suffering from leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease spread by the bite of phlebotomine sandflies, is seen in a refugee camp in Idlib, Syria on July 02, 2020. In the refugee camps in Idlib, danger of leishmaniasis disease arose due to inadequate living conditions and insufficient health services. In the camps where sheltered civilians escaping from the attacks of Assad regime and its supporters, infrastructure problems, especially exposed septic pits and damaged sewers, cause the spread of the disease. (Muhammed Abdullah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Climate change could spread parasite

Agostino Petroni - Undark
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

Mast cells and the mystery of long COVID

Temma Ehrenfeld - Undark
Mummified Remains in Tomb of the Golden Mummies (Getty Images/Ron Watts)

The thorny ethics of museum mummies

Doug Struck - Undark
(Getty/urbazon)

On fixing the drug patent system

Gunjan Sinha - Undark
Homes remain flooded as Texas moved toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 4, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

TX-sized effort to fend off rising seas

Eric Bender - Undark
Workers in the hand sanitizer bottling process in AGE do Brasil factory on April 6, 2020, in Vinhedo, Brazil. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

COVID pseudoscience suffocating Brazil

Shanna Hanbury, Kiratiana Freelon - Undark
Mammoth Lakes is a town in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for the Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain ski areas and nearby trails.Mammoth Lakes is a town in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for the Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain ski areas and nearby trails. ( iStock / Getty Images)

Wildfire anxiety is on the rise

Astra Lincoln - Undark
Desoto State park dam (Getty Images)

Below aging dams, a toxic thread

James Dinneen, Alexander Kennedy - Undark
Stephen Hawking (Getty/Bruno Vincent)

A humanizing portrait of Stephen Hawking

Dan Falk - Undark
Medical students watching a body dissection, at the Women's College Hospital, Philadelphia. (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Revisiting the 1869 "She Doctor" panic

Olivia Campbell - Undark
Typing code on a laptop computer (Getty Images)

The perils of proprietary health care AI

Vishal Khetpal, Nishant R. Shah - Undark
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