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How to save the planet from your couch

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

Credit: Nogas1974 CC BY-SA 4.0

Chinese twins are allegedly the first “genetically edited” babies

By | Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology, What We’re Reading

Buried on Black Friday, climate report still turns heads

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

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in 2017

The Khashoggi murder raises questions about a Saudi Bomb

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

The start of the Woolsey Fire. Credit: CBS LA

California fire near nuclear accident site

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

French President Emmanuel Macron. Credit: © World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

US may not join Macron cyber pact

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

A White House intern tries to take CNN reporter Jim Acosta's microphone

The White House shallowfake: Press secretary uses manipulated video in war against press

By Dawn Stover | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Medical staff treat injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo, Syria, in October 2012. (Photo credit: Voice of America.)

A form of biological warfare in Syria and Yemen

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

A rally outside the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on October 29 was one of many across the country to show support for a federal climate lawsuit brought by 21 youth. Credit: Peg Hunter

Landmark climate trial is on again

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

Facebook: This time is different. Frontline: What took so long?

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

Climate trial of the century: justice delayed?

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

The BGM-109G, a ground-launched cruise missile shown here at the National Museum of the US Air Force, was one of the US weapons banned by the INF. (Photo credit: US Air Force.)

Trump and Bolton try to dismantle the INF Treaty

By Elisabeth Eaves | Nuclear Weapons, The INF Treaty and the Future of Arms Control, What We’re Reading