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 ...

Unlike the US and UK, where start-ups and governments are betting heavily on small modular reactors, France’s state-led ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Countries could soon begin shaping the contours of a verification system for the global treaty banning bioweapons–something the Biological Weapons Convention, which entered into force in 1975, still ...

UK. He has a PhD in conservation biology and has conducted research in the science-policy interface. After a 20-year career in environmental research, he became frustrated by the gap between research ...

Emerson Mendoza Ayala is a travel and environmental investigative journalist and audiovisual communicator from Spain. He specializes in solutions-focused environmental and climate change reporting, ...