As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting ...

Climate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy ...

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

In March 2016, the Chinese government opened the doors to a nuclear security training center in Beijing with assistance from American experts. Sandia National Laboratories had worked with their ...

On October 11, 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, where they confronted the threat of nuclear weapons and found common ground despite the Cold War.

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 ...

Timothy Callaghan is an associate professor of health policy and politics in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and ...

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump increased rhetorical pressure on Greenland, saying that acquiring it was essential to national security and warning that the United States was going to take it ...

Editor’s note: This article was commissioned by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is also published in WIRED. Yoshua Bengio, Mila’s scientific director, is a pioneer in artificial neural ...

Earlier this year, researchers at King’s College London gave three commercial AI models—GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash—a tabletop exercise typically used to train human military ...

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 ...

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 ...