Public HealthOctober 13, 2023
Bed Bugs and Influencers Spark Pest Panic in Paris. Here’s What You Need to Know
Media reports suggest an unprecedented outbreak of bed bugs in Paris, but experts aren’t so sure anything is out of the ordinary
Stories by Brooke Borel
Brooke Borel is articles editor at Undark magazine and author of Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World.
PolicySeptember 1, 2019
How Professional Truth Seekers Search for Answers
Nine experts describe how they sort signal from noise
ComputingOctober 1, 2018
Clicks, Lies and Videotape
Artificial intelligence is making it possible for anyone to manipulate audio and video. The biggest threat is that we stop trusting anything at all
AgricultureJune 18, 2018
Weeds Are Winning the War against Herbicide Resistance
Herbicides are under evolutionary threat. Can modern agriculture find a new way to fight back?
CultureOctober 27, 2017
When GMOs Are the Movie Star
Can documentaries on controversial science be entertaining—and accurate?
BiotechOctober 1, 2017
Can Scientists Convince the Public to Accept CRISPR and Gene Drives?
Scientists are trying new ways to win over a skeptical public