As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting ...

Climate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy ...

In March 2016, the Chinese government opened the doors to a nuclear security training center in Beijing with assistance from American experts. Sandia National Laboratories had worked with their ...

On October 11, 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, where they confronted the threat of nuclear weapons and found common ground despite the Cold War.

Michael Stein is chair and professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a physician, his addictions research focuses on behavioral risk-taking ...

Timothy Callaghan is an associate professor of health policy and politics in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and ...

Prediction markets now offer the chance to wager on drug trials and regulatory approvals. The consequences could be negative outcomes for trial participants, fewer medicines for the public, and a ...

Since President Eisenhower more-or-less invented the term military-industrial complex, US defense spending has grown, dramatically in some eras, leveling off a bit in others, but overall heading ...

Political and military leaders around the world are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the pace and quality of their decisions, including in scenarios that could lead to ...

Modern AI might be just the bridge a would-be terrorist needs to cross between thinking about a biological attack and pulling one off. Having hoovered up a vast swath of human knowledge, scientific ...

In the early morning hours of January 25, 1995, scientists in the small town of Andoya in northern Norway successfully launched a meteorological research rocket. The rocket was immediately picked up ...

How does the COVID-19 pandemic compare to viral outbreaks of the past? As the world lurches into a fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the official death count based on public disclosures is ...