Essays & Analysis

Reported perspectives, news analyses, personal essays, and related fare from Undark's contributors.

Essays & Analysis

Four Years Later, Revisiting an Expertise Exodus

By Starre Vartan & Jenny Morber

10.26.2020

Visuals: Fran Monks

Essays & Analysis

How NASA Shaped the Study of Life on Earth

By Philip J. Hilts

07.13.2020

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Race, Pollution, and Covid-19

By Rebecca Leber

06.30.2020

Essays & Analysis

In the Pandemic, Doctors’ Offices Turn to GoFundMe

By Brooke Borel

05.09.2020

News & Features

Lessons in the Impermanence of Permafrost

By Madeline Ostrander

04.28.2020

Visuals: Whitney McLaren

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For His Virus Work, Ioannidis Raises Eyebrows

By Michael Schulson

04.24.2020

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Nixing Harmful Tweets From High Places. Why Now?

By Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

04.18.2020

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Are Post-9/11 Investments Helping the U.S. Now?

By Michael Schulson

04.02.2020

Essays & Analysis

A Science Publishing Shift, or Business as Usual?

By Michael Schulson

03.30.2020

Essays & Analysis

The Allure and Peril of State Power Amid Covid-19

By Michael Schulson

03.16.2020

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Seeing the Forest for the Trees

By Isabella Kaminski

12.11.2019

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The CAR-T Revolution Is … Messy

By Ilana Yurkiewicz

10.23.2019

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For Uniformed Public Health Officers, a Reckoning

By Keren Landman

06.24.2019

Essays & Analysis

Heartburn Gave My Dad Cancer. Should I Be Worried?

By Caren Chesler

03.25.2019

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Opinion: The Climate Blues

By Michaela Cavanagh

01.10.2019

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Paper Trails: America’s Fragmented Medical Records

By Ilana Yurkiewicz

09.24.2018

Essays & Analysis

‘Atomic Bill’ and the Birth of the Bomb

By Mark Wolverton

08.09.2017

Essays & Analysis

Worse Than the Disease: Curing Chronic Fatigue

By David Tuller

10.27.2016