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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

For Finnish authorities, 2025 ended dramatically. On the very last day of the year, at 4:53 a.m. local time, a telecommunications company called Elisa noticed a significant disruption to data on one ...

Mention military space operations and most people, even sophisticates in Washington, conjure up images of Star Wars: Laser-powered firearms, star fighters and battleships, and cosmic fireball ...