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Whistleblower: Facebook undermines kids and democracy. Will Congress do something?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

First came global warming. Then hurricanes. Then more migratory bird deaths?

By John Morales | Analysis, Climate Change, Columnists, Personal Essay

Paying for preparedness: Climate change role-play is suddenly real

By John Morales | Analysis, Climate Change, Columnists

Air quality surveillance and control: How to improve the response to all respiratory diseases, COVID-19 included

By Laura H. Kahn | Analysis, Biosecurity

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A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!

By Barry R. Posen | Analysis, Missile Defense

Intelligence community investigation unable to reach consensus on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Biosecurity

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Rejecting survival: How Trumpist denials of the COVID catastrophe impede recovery and renewal

By Robert Jay Lifton | Analysis, Biosecurity

White House press briefing on coronavirus

Reporting on science in today’s hyperpolitical environment

By Herbert Lin | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

A bus carrying a team of experts from the World Health Organization departs an airport in Wuhan on Jan. 14, 2021, after arriving in the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. That investigation is widely seen as having been obstructed by Chinese authorities. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

How COVID-19’s origins were obscured, by the East and the West

By Nicholas Wade | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Hydroelectric drought: How climate change complicates California’s plans for a carbon-free future

By Brian Tarroja | Analysis, Climate Change

A man receives a COVID-19 shot.

Why are COVID-19 vaccine booster shots controversial?

By Matt Field | Analysis

White-tailed deer are getting coronavirus infections: How big of a problem is that?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies