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

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

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 ...

Renewed talks with Pyongyang require more than impulsive concessions. To draw Kim back to the table, Washington must ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poke through the history of biological weapons long enough and you will likely come across a particularly macabre claim. In 1346, the story goes, an army of the Golden Horde—an offshoot of Genghis ...

Imagine you work for a hypothetical gene synthesis company, one of dozens around the world that manufacture tiny strands of custom nucleic acids like DNA for customers in academia and industry. DNA ...