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multiple images of Trump in style of Andy Warhol silkscreen

Should I stay or should I go? A ‘Chernobyl-like defect’ in our election system might give Trump a choice

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

Two key questions about North Korea’s new missile

By Xu Tianran | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Great Wall of China, partial silhouette

US-China rivalry: When great power competition endangers global science

By Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

North Korea’s military parade on October 10, 2020

After the parade, North Korea’s steady progress matters more than its big new missile

By Jenny Town | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Vladimir Putin.

How Russia, China, and other governments use coronavirus disinformation to reshape geopolitics

By Isra Thange, Nicola Bariletto, Luca Zanotti, Jacob Rob, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

When AI is in control, who’s to blame for military accidents?

By Julia Ciocca, Lauren Kahn | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence

A billboard in South Africa.

Corona-free? How disinformation could be clouding the true pandemic picture in Africa

By Julia Ilhardt, Giorgio Musto, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

firefighter silhouette

California’s inmate firefighters turn pro?

By Joseph Winters | Analysis

World’s biggest carbon emitters told to reach net zero—by activist investors representing $47 trillion

By Adam Morton | Analysis

A Facebook post.

Coronavirus disinformation adds conspiratorial fuel to a volatile Middle East

By Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro, Isra Thange, Alaa Ghoneim | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

climate activist protest sign

“If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”—latest strategy of climate activists at Harvard

By Emily Pontecorvo | Analysis, Climate Change

Map showing possible source region for radioisotopes detected by Swedish monitoring station on June 22 and 23, 2020.

Radiation detections in northern Europe: what we do and don’t know

By Cheryl Rofer | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons