Civil society, not the AI industry, should write the rules for the new constitution driven by artificial intelligence.

Unanticipated shutdowns at nuclear power plants will increase in frequency as extreme weather events driven by climate change ...

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 ...

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 ...

Military and wartime emissions are difficult to track—but too important to ignore. How much does war, and the preparation and recovery from it, contribute to the climate crisis? Nobody knows, because ...

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 ...

Laurel Baker: Washington is vocally wary of Russian saber-rattling right now. How has your perception of Russian nuclear credibility evolved since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In July 2012, a renegade American businessman, Russ George, took a ship off the ...

A little more than two centuries ago in the English city of Nottingham, groups of cloth workers began destroying knitting frames and power looms. Manufacturers were using these machines to replace the ...