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As Offshore Wind Ramps Up, Scientists Flag Potential Impacts
WEBAug 21, 2023 · L ast year, the Biden administration announced an ambitious goal: enough offshore wind to power 10 million homes by 2030. The move would reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, and strengthen energy security. It would also help the United States — which was responsible for just 0.1 percent of the world’s offshore wind capacity last year — catch up with renewable energy leaders like China ...
Maybe She’s Just Tired, Maybe It’s Undiagnosed Iron Deficiency
WEBAug 26, 2024 · Iron deficiency is rare in men — estimated to affect about 2 percent of U.S. men — but when it develops, similarly to menopausal women, it can signal an underlying condition such as an ulcer or cancer. As Weyand put it: “It’s more of a red flag in terms of figuring out why they’re iron deficient.”.
Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science
WEBDec 12, 2022 · LONG DIVISION is an ongoing journalistic project by Undark Magazine, published by the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, that examines the fraught legacy of race science.The multipart series, supported in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, grew out of a workshop held in June 2022 at Harvard University, which brought together journalists, science historians, and other ...
The Scramble to Defuse the ‘Feral Swine Bomb’ - Undark Magazine
WEBSep 14, 2020 · Canada doesn’t have comparable data, but Ryan Brook, a University of Saskatchewan biologist who researches wild pigs, predicts that they will occupy 386,000 square miles across the country by the end of 2020, and they’re currently expanding at about 35,000 square miles a year. “I’ve heard it referred to as a feral swine bomb,” says ...
The Gold Rush Returns to California - Undark Magazine
WEBBy Becki Robins. 01.24.2022. 21 Comments. On the outskirts of the northern California town of Grass Valley, a massive concrete silo looms over the weeds and crumbling pavement. Nearby, unseen, a mine shaft drops 3,400 feet into the earth. These are the remains of Grass Valley’s Idaho-Maryland Mine, a relic from the town’s gold mining past.
Evidence and Orthodontics: Does Your Child Really Need Braces?
WEBJul 20, 2020 · Some orthodontists who question their field’s claims about oral health do continue to treat patients. As they see it, clear communication of evidence — or lack thereof — is key. “If you tell a lay person” that a child has “mandibular hypoplasia, or maxillary deficiency, or adenoidal facies — it sounds bad,” said Vig.
The Complicated Quest to Decipher Human Difference - Undark …
WEBDec 13, 2022 · Experts now say that’s simply not the case. “There’s actually very little differentiation between human populations,” said Joseph Graves, Jr., an evolutionary biologist at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. “And what differentiation there is, is continuous and not discrete.”. .
The Burgeoning Science of Search and Rescue - Undark Magazine
WEBBy Sarah Scoles. 01.22.2024. 3 Comments. On May 5, 2023, a 19-year-old hiker named Matthew Read headed out on a roughly 12-mile trek in an underpopulated part of Glacier National Park in Montana. Read, a chemical engineering student, had stopped in Glacier while driving home to Michigan, and the pine-surrounded path he …
Opinion: Electric Cars’ Looming Recycling Problem - Undark …
WEBJan 21, 2021 · However, the truth is being swept under the rug. None of the lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles are recyclable in the same sense that paper, glass, and lead car batteries are. Although efforts to improve recycling methods are underway, generally only around half the materials in these batteries are currently extracted and repurposed.