What We’re Reading

Photo illustration by Matt Field based in part on photos by premier.gov.ru and www.kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

Ahead of 2020, disinformation and fake news are alive and well on social media 

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Border marker at San Ysidro, California. Credit: Josh Denmark/US Customs and Border Protection

White nationalism’s solution to climate change: fewer brown people

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the cutting room floor

By Thomas Gaulkin | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

glass globe and water

Louisiana congressman bets the era of climate denial is over. Or does he?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change, What We’re Reading

A US military artist's vision of laser weapons. Perhaps surprisingly, on Earth, the Pentagon is well on the way to making talking laser-formed plasma balls a reality. Credit: Defense Department via Wikimedia Commons.

The Pentagon’s getting closer to fielding talking lasers

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

The sea is rising. Can you save your town?

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

The condensation trails (contrails) of an Airbus A340 jet over London. Credit: Adrian Pingstone

Airplane contrails are changing the climate

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

The environmental cost of your next adventure

By Heather Wuest | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

The Chinese city of Urumqi in Xinjiang. Credit: Alexander Flühmann via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ultrasounds and blood draws: An account of Chinese government oppression of the Uighurs

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Climate change speeding glaciers into cement

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Iran has exceeded uranium limits set by the Iran nuclear deal. What’s next?

By Heather Wuest | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at G20 meeting, July 7, 2017

Pentagon report: Russian leaders believe they are already at war with the United States—in the gray zone

By Matt Field | Technology and Security, What We’re Reading