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smokestacks and orange sky

A Green New Deal must not sabotage climate goals

By Dana Nuccitelli | Climate Change, Opinion

Making sense of the 2018 National Biodefense Strategy

By Rachel Bartholomew, Kristin Omberg | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Hollywood sign submerged in sand

When it rains, it acid-rains

By Dan Drollette Jr | Opinion, What We’re Reading

The red rock region of public lands in Utah. Photo Credit: Wayne Stadler, Creative Commons.

US public lands: An overlooked piece of the climate solution

By Jamie Williams | Climate Change, Opinion

Trump's tweet about global warming.

The 2018 list of the worst in anti-science

By Jeremy Schulman | Climate Change, Opinion

An orange and white conical craft in outer space.

Washington sparks a space spat at the United Nations

By Paul Meyer | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Research on smallpox continues today. Photo credit: Centers for Disease Control

Synthetic biology: A call for a new culture of responsibility

By Ali Nouri, Shahram Seyedin-Noor | Opinion, Synthetic biology

mushroom cloud video game

The ambivalent nuclear politics of Fallout video games

By Cameron Hunter | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

A Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile at a 2015 military parade in Beijing. China may be a source for other governments wishing to buy missiles. (Photo credit: Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.)

The coming Middle East missile arms race

By Bilal Y. Saab | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Talks to ban nuclear materials need a fresh start

Talks to ban nuclear materials need a fresh start

By Paul Meyer | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

College students asked about nukes

Reducing the risk of nuclear war begins in the classroom

By Luisa Kenausis, Aron Bernstein , Robert P. Redwine, Michael Hynes | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

nuclear weapons and pop culture

TV and the Bomb

By Reba A. Wissner | Opinion