Mr. President, to improve and streamline oversight of risky pathogen research, you should create a new biosafety and ...

Mr. President, you should end the policy of placing the responsibility to launch nuclear weapons on one person—you and future ...

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...

The Doomsday Clock is about to be reset on January 28. In this unique moment of time between the LA fires, the implementation ...

US e-commerce sellers are scrambling to prepare for a potential TikTok ban, with some halting shipments and others testing ...

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take America back (again!) to greatness, there’s been much talk of Elon Musk’s new DOGE, or Department of ...

In 1947, just two years after the end of WWII, a group of Manhattan Project scientists, including Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, created the Doomsday Clock. It’s a metaphor, not a ...

Gino Segrè has found a new way of telling the story of the pioneers of quantum physics, a way that is gripping and absorbing. Faust in Copenhagen is written with a style and skill that make it the ...

The first NYE countdown can arguably be traced to the final seconds of 1957, when prominent radio correspondent Ben Grauer ...

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