March special issue: What to do about Taiwan

Disruptive Technologies

A sequence of frames from video of the Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast on February 4, 2023.

Cybersecurity, surveillance, and military retaliation: Why some balloons bust–and others don’t

By Kathryn Hedgecock, Lauren Sukin | Disruptive Technologies

One year of war in Ukraine

By Erik English | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk

How civil society can help monitor and verify nuclear arms control

By Sara Al-Sayed | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons

The smallpox virus.

Private-sector research could pose a pandemic risk. Here’s what to do about it

By Gerald L. Epstein | Biosecurity

Keeping humans in the loop is not enough to make AI safe for nuclear weapons

By Peter Rautenbach | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Drone boat

Why drone boats are an overhyped Achilles’ fleet

By Jonathan Panter, Johnathan Falcone | Disruptive Technologies

UN Secretary-General: “the Doomsday Clock is a global alarm clock”

By François Diaz-Maurin | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

Peter Hotez at his desk in a white physician coat

Viral spread: Peter Hotez on the increase of anti-science aggression on social media

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

A mink

Mink on a Spanish farm caught bird flu. Is the virus adapting to mammals?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

A biosafety level 4 lab.

Researchers hacked a lab’s pathogen containment system. Was it a good idea to publish the results?

By George Poste, David Gillum | Biosecurity

An illustrated history of the world’s deadliest epidemics, from ancient Rome to Covid-19

By Erik English | Biosecurity, Multimedia

Galveston National Laboratory.

Despite risk-management gaps, countries press ahead with new labs that study deadly pathogens

By Matt Field | Biosecurity