Since President Eisenhower more-or-less invented the term military-industrial complex, US defense spending has grown, dramatically in some eras, leveling off a bit in others, but overall heading ...

As global interest in nuclear weapons surges, Pakistan's recent conflict with India reveals their stark limits—failing to ...

Protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks means confronting a mismatch between the threat and the government’s ...

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.

My film would be a documentary, meant to demonstrate that, while the world was off watching killer robot movies (and ...

Renewed talks with Pyongyang require more than impulsive concessions. To draw Kim back to the table, Washington must ...

New study finds Earth system models could be overestimating future carbon storage in forests by up to 30 percent.

As the last surviving US servicemen who witnessed the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reach their 100s, their harrowing ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This year’s coast-to-coast wildfires in Canada have already ...