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 ...

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.

Renewed talks with Pyongyang require more than impulsive concessions. To draw Kim back to the table, Washington must articulate a prepared, high-level vision centered on peaceful coexistence rather ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nuclear films are both reflections of the zeitgeist in which they are made and shapers of it. They feed off of both popular and expert anxieties, while also helping to solidify the terms on which ...

Amid a supremely chaotic news environment—dominated by Trump’s deportations, Trump’s funding cuts and layoffs, Trump’s tariffs and, of course, the tumultuous stock market the tariffs produced—one ...

The mystique of nuclear-powered submarines has been captured by at least half a dozen popular Hollywood films. Some have centered on the drama of undersea warfare and the risk of global nuclear ...