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Disruptive Technologies

The psychological pandemic: Can we confront our death anxiety?

By Robert Jay Lifton, Charles B. Strozier | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

Russian opposition leader Alexy Navalny.

YouTube and other foreign tech companies bow to Kremlin pressure amid Navalny protests

By Justin Sherman | Disruptive Technologies

Bill Gates shows a vaccine at UN press conference in 2011

The quest to rid Facebook of vaccine misinformation

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

A GDP for nature: How measuring the health of the natural world might prevent the next pandemic

By Laura H. Kahn | Disruptive Technologies

The Treasury Department

The SolarWinds hackers could be in US government computers for a long time. Here’s our next move

By Gregory Falco | Disruptive Technologies

A COVID-19 test.

Think a year of COVID-19 has been tough? Try decades (or longer)

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

The Wuhan Institute of Virology.

WHO: COVID-19 didn’t leak from a lab. Also WHO: Maybe it did

By Filippa Lentzos | Disruptive Technologies

An An-2.

The next frontier in drone warfare? A Soviet-era crop duster

By Benjamin Fogel, Andro Mathewson | Disruptive Technologies

Putin at RT.

As Trump’s impeachment trial begins, the Russian network that helped him in 2016 taps his supporters on Gab.com

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

A uranium mine.

Radiation illnesses and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation

By Jayita Sarkar, Caitlin Meyer | Disruptive Technologies

Politics, race, and religion: Pandemic misinformation courses through the Southeast Asian internet

By Jan Oledan, Nicola Bariletto, Saiful Salihudin, Mehulika Sitepu, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Biden speaks.

Biden should focus on science communication as his administration seeks to tame the pandemic

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion