Scientists showed recently that AI can be used to produce novel viruses. We need to build a layered system of defense before AI-enabled bioweapons capabilities become undeniably advanced—or worse, ...

The Pentagon's $3.2 billion bet on space-based boost-phase missile defense ignores basic orbital dynamics, offering no real ...

Drone technology, once confined to great powers like the United States and China, has spread to smaller states and non-state ...

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 ...

On Sunday, President Donald Trump said the United States would scale back major military exercises with South Korea, citing his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The announcement ...

In 2024, dozens of prominent researchers wrote an article in Science that introduced the world to a dizzying concept: the existential perils of so-called “mirror-life,” a type of organism based on ...

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 ...

When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2018, he cracked the brittle foundation of the global nonproliferation regime based on the 1970 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the end of March, the US Forest Service announced an extensive reorganization that includes closing at least 57 of its 77 research stations across the nation. The agency’s official position is that ...