A researcher at Columbia University who studies atmospheric and climate science gives a first-hand account of what it is like to pursue this work in the Trump 2.0 era, when the foundations of American ...

Facing three paths following major US strikes on its nuclear infrastructure, Iran is most likely to rebuild its latent ...

Satellite imagery and capacity analysis reveal that Beijing is expanding its uninspected Emeishan centrifuge facility—a move ...

Declarations that humans will be in the loop regarding AI-assisted military decisions should ensure they'll have meaningful control.

After being urged to stay quiet about climate while campaigning, I hope that Democrats will recognize the unprecedented ...

While a Democratically controlled Congress can start holding Big Tech to account, it’s unlikely they can pass effective legislation.

Scientists handpicked by the Trump administration to write a critical review of climate science used various LLMs to review their work, only to find that AI told them they were cherry-picking their ...

Valerie Brown is a science writer based in Oregon. She has covered environmental health, climate, nuclear waste, and microbiology, among other subjects, receiving an explanatory journalism award from ...

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Hui Zhang is a physicist and a senior research associate at the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where he leads a research ...