Prediction markets now offer the chance to wager on drug trials and regulatory approvals. The consequences could be negative ...

Far from being helpless against a veto, Congress holds significant legal and procedural power over the administration's ...

A landmark 24-country study reveals that a majority of people worldwide embraces both nuclear deterrence and disarmament, ...

Following recent reports of a death at a secretive Siberian disease research lab, author Annie Jacobsen has become a sought-after media interview. Some interviewers are now casting Jacobsen's new ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. During the Sand Creek Fire, which has burned since the start ...

Michael Stein is chair and professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a physician, his addictions research focuses on behavioral risk-taking ...

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.

When AI researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic this month, he warned that people at companies racing ...

Iran’s nuclear dispute has entered a new and potentially more dangerous phase. Repeated US and Israeli threats of further strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure—particularly the newly identified ...

Last week, US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said that the United States has fielded “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.” It ...

When Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Washington this week, one phrase demands particular attention: the “constructive relationship of strategic stability” they agreed to pursue in May.

AnnaJulia Yates is a research assistant at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.