Scientists showed recently that AI can be used to produce novel viruses. We need to build a layered system of defense before ...
The Pentagon's $3.2 billion bet on space-based boost-phase missile defense ignores basic orbital dynamics, offering no real ...
Drone technology, once confined to great powers like the United States and China, has spread to smaller states and non-state ...
On Sunday, President Donald Trump said the United States would scale back major military exercises with South Korea, citing his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The announcement ...
In 2024, dozens of prominent researchers wrote an article in Science that introduced the world to a dizzying concept: the existential perils of so-called “mirror-life,” a type of organism based on ...
The US military has a long, complicated relationship with climate change. Beginning in the mid-1950s, it paid for research ...
Local governments negotiating data center deals lack guidance because experienced communities are unwilling to share lessons ...
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Southeast Australia has been getting hotter and drier. Droughts ...
When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2018, he cracked the brittle foundation of the global nonproliferation regime based on the 1970 ...
Worldwide, regulations limiting doses from the radiation emitted by nuclear fissions and decays are based on the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model. This hypothesis posits that, irrespective of whether ...
Imagine you work for a hypothetical gene synthesis company, one of dozens around the world that manufacture tiny strands of custom nucleic acids like DNA for customers in academia and industry. DNA ...