At the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board moved the Doomsday Clock forward from 89 seconds to 85 seconds to midnight, citing a failure in global leadership.

Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...

At least 225 US scientists who conduct research in Greenland have signed a Statement in Solidarity with Greenland this month.

As President Trump tries to coerce European leaders over Greenland and seems ready to break the transatlantic alliance, the crisis should serve as a catalyst for deeper and smarter Europeanization of ...

Like Iran, governments worldwide rely on internet shutdowns to suppress populations, rig elections and collectively punish ...

The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must ...

In August of 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, advising him that the process of nuclear fission could potentially be used to create a powerful atomic ...

Yarrow Axford directs a paleoclimate research group at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she was the William Deering Professor in Geological Sciences. She lives in Massachusetts.

The catastrophic accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine was one of the worst man-made disasters of the twentieth century. Two and a half decades later, the nuclear accident ...

Rhodes is the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. It was the first of four volumes ...

Saiful Salihudin is a Master of International Affairs candidate at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), concentrating on Economic and Political Development. Saiful ...