Scientists showed recently that AI can be used to produce novel viruses. We need to build a layered system of defense before AI-enabled bioweapons capabilities become undeniably advanced—or worse, ...
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 ...
Scores of researchers and scientific groups have been warning that research toward the creation of mirror life should not be conducted. Not everyone is convinced.
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 ...
“Humanity remains unacceptably close to nuclear annihilation. Now is the time to […] eliminate nuclear weapons from our world.” This recent post by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres supports the ...
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 ...
The Trump administration continues to flounder about its nuclear aims in the Middle East. The on-again, off-again war to get Iran to give up its nuclear program appears no closer to resolution, ...
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 ...