A researcher at Columbia University who studies atmospheric and climate science gives a first-hand account of what it is like to pursue this work in the Trump 2.0 era, when the foundations of American ...

While a Democratically controlled Congress can start holding Big Tech to account, it’s unlikely they can pass effective legislation.

After being urged to stay quiet about climate while campaigning, I hope that Democrats will recognize the unprecedented ...

Satellite imagery and capacity analysis reveal that Beijing is expanding its uninspected Emeishan centrifuge facility—a move ...

Scientists handpicked by the Trump administration to write a critical review of climate science used various LLMs to review their work, only to find that AI told them they were cherry-picking their ...

Declarations that humans will be in the loop regarding AI-assisted military decisions should ensure they'll have meaningful control.

Did the authors of the Energy Department’s controversial 2025 climate report confuse two layers of the Earth’s atmosphere, and then use faulty analysis to question evidence of anthropogenic climate ...

Australia and nuclear weapons have a complicated history. The country went from a testing ground for the UK’s nuclear program in the 1950s to a potential proliferator in the 1960s. In the 1980s, it ...

In the summer of 2023, as Russia threatened nuclear strikes against Ukraine, we conducted the most comprehensive academic survey of global attitudes toward nuclear weapons ever undertaken. Across 24 ...

A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war. Little is known about the ...