September issue: The hype, peril, and promise of AI

Investigative Reporting

Playing downwind of the Trinity test site on the day of the explosion, July 16, 1945

Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test

By Lesley M. M. Blume | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law

By Harold P. Green | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Special Topics

May issue: Early warnings and near-misses

By Dan Drollette Jr | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Risk

Showdown in Dixie Valley: Battle over geothermal project pits tiny toad against renewable energy

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change, Investigative Reporting

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else.

By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | Investigative Reporting, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Is the next pandemic brewing on the Netherlands’ poultry farms?

By Paul Tullis | Biosecurity, Investigative Reporting, Multimedia

Gathering storm: The industrial infrastructure catastrophe looming over America’s Gulf coast

By Tristan Baurick | Climate Change, Investigative Reporting, Multimedia

The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb

By Alex Wellerstein | Investigative Reporting, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive by car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on February 3. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

By Nicholas Wade | Biosecurity, Investigative Reporting

US ICBM Test

Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Weapons

The brain-computer interface is coming, and we are so not ready for it

By Paul Tullis | Disruptive Technologies, Investigative Reporting

Hot zone in the heartland?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Investigative Reporting