Even without runaway superintelligence or malicious intent, current AI systems risk triggering nuclear war by amplifying ...

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the ...

Extensive grazing could help protect landscapes from one of the most destructive impacts of climate change, but shepherds need more support.

Beijing views "strategic stability" as a guarantee of non-interference, while Washington pays the phrase little mind. Ahead ...

Last week, US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said that the United States has fielded “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.” It ...

AnnaJulia Yates is a research assistant at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy at Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, a guest researcher at the German Institute for ...

In 1978, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a cover story titled “Is mankind warming the Earth?” The answer then, as now, was an “unqualified ‘yes.’” Between July 2023 and June 2024, the ...

Seth Grae is chairman and chief executive officer of Lightbridge Corporation (Nasdaq: LTBR), a nuclear fuel technology company. Thomas Graham Jr. chaired Lightbridge’s board from 2009 to 2024.

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the heels of the hottest ...