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 ...

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.

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 ...

In a stunning comeback, Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election and will serve as the 47 th president of the United States. Like all presidents, Trump’s (second) term in office will impact ...

How does the COVID-19 pandemic compare to viral outbreaks of the past? As the world lurches into a fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the official death count based on public disclosures is ...

Louison Mazeaud is an associate researcher in the weapons of mass destruction program at United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) where she focuses on the national implementation of ...

For more than a decade, Western nuclear analysts have sounded the alarm over a particularly dangerous characteristic of China’s nuclear forces: They often overlap with China’s conventional forces.