Investigative Reporting

The rise of the military-technology complex

By Bernice Yeung | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Investigative Reporting

Satellite view of a tunnel entrance with a blue truck, several smaller vehicles, and surrounding sandy terrain.

Analysis: Iran likely transferred highly enriched uranium to Isfahan before the June strikes

By François Diaz-Maurin | Analysis, Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Weapons

Fukushima at 15: Living with radioactive hot spots and stigma as Japan’s government pushes for more reactors

By Thomas A. Bass | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste

How Holtec International became an expanding (and controversial) nuclear power

By Matt Smith | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

A woman speaks at a podium labeled "Extend & Expand RECA," pointing to a map as several people stand behind her at an outdoor event.

Trump’s new radiation exposure limits could be ‘catastrophic’ for women and girls

By Lesley M. M. Blume, Chloe Shrager | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public

By François Diaz-Maurin | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

A rising danger in the Arctic: Microbes unleashed by climate change

By Valerie Brown | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Investigative Reporting

When Rome’s fountains run dry

By Gabriele Di Donfrancesco | Climate Change, Investigative Reporting

The University of Chicago’s new climate initiative: brave research program or potentially dangerous foray into solar geoengineering?

By Jessica McKenzie | Analysis, Climate Change, Investigative Reporting

The short march to China’s hydrogen bomb

By Hui Zhang | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Weapons

The underwater Amazon: Kelp forests are crucial to the fight against climate change. Here’s how they could be saved.

By Paul Tullis | Climate Change, Investigative Reporting

Black swans from Mars? The real risks of sending alien samples home

By Valerie Brown | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Investigative Reporting, Special Topics