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The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?
2024年11月26日 · O n e bluebird day in 2021, employees of Fortem Technologies traveled to a flat piece of Utah desert. The land was a good spot to try the company’s new innovation: an attachment for the DroneHunter — which, as the name halfway implies, is a …
The Great American Nuclear Weapons Upgrade - undark.org
2024年11月4日 · I n the plains of western South Dakota, about 25 miles northeast of Mount Rushmore, the Ellsworth Air Force Base is preparing to receive the first fleet of B-21 nuclear bombers, replacing Cold War-era planes. Two other bases, Dyess in Texas and Whiteman in Missouri, will soon follow. By the 2030s, a total of five bases throughout the United States will …
Why Alzheimer’s Scientists Are Re-thinking the Amyloid Hypothesis
2025年1月7日 · F or decades, scientists have been trying to develop therapeutics for people living with Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by cognitive decline. Given the global rise in cases, the stakes are high.A study published in The Lancet Public Health reports that the number of adults living with dementia worldwide is …
As Biolabs Multiply Globally, Some Experts Worry About Oversight
2025年1月2日 · At the same time, the pandemic has also prompted what some experts describe as a global boom in the construction of such facilities. As countries struggled to respond to the pandemic, many decided that they need more laboratories in …
Book Review: A Reverent Tribute to Disappearing Creatures
2024年12月27日 · W riters whose subject is the natural world, and the overwhelming changes that humans have inflicted upon it, grapple regularly with a maddening dilemma: how to convey that all hope is not lost, while presenting facts that can bear down on hope like an avalanche.. Hope is often fundamental to action, essential for rousing readers out of complacency; …
Where the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Went Wrong - Undark …
2023年5月25日 · O ver the past few years, a fascinating narrative about forests and fungi has captured the public imagination. It holds that the roots of neighboring trees can be connected by fungal filaments, forming massive underground networks that can span entire forests — a so-called wood-wide web.
Down on the Body Farm: The Forensics of Decaying Corpses
2019年11月11日 · Western Carolina University’s Forensic Osteology Research Station, founded in 2007, was the second body farm facility. In addition to serving as a laboratory for studying human decay at an altitude of 2,271 feet in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the center has provided a training ground for cadaver dogs that can detect human remains.
Meet Our Team - Undark Magazine
Tom Zeller Jr., Editor in Chief — Tom co-founded Undark magazine in 2016 after a career spanning 15 years as a journalist contributing to a variety of publications, including 12 years on staff as an editor, columnist, graphic designer, and reporter at The New York Times. In 2013-14, he spent an academic year at MIT as a research fellow with the Knight Science Journalism …
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For Some Survivors, Polio Casts a Long Shadow - Undark Magazine
2023年1月2日 · I had polio at 8 yrs of age in summer of 1948. Paralyzed from neck down. Yeah long recoup; Sister Kenny method of rehab used. Ran track, ice scared, on cue basketball team in high school.