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Climate change could increase volcanic eruptions

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

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A message from a proud nuclear-missile owner

By Elisabeth Eaves | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

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The climate-change case for taxing your hamburger

By Lucien Crowder | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

DARPA invests $100 million in gene-altering technology

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

Good news about climate change, from unexpected quarters

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

Deception campaigns aren’t just for national leaders anymore. They’re for everybody

Fooling all the people all the time

By Lucien Crowder | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security, What We’re Reading

A Missile Defense Agency flight test of a ground-based interceptor, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. in June 2014.

North Korea fires a ballistic missile, in a further challenge to Trump

By Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

How emerging technology is shaping the future of intelligence.

Quantum espionage

By Elisabeth Eaves | Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security, What We’re Reading

Reconsidering the nuclear demigod called Mr. President

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

Wind power

Carbon removal: A cart in need of a horse

By Lucien Crowder | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Donald Trump withdraws from the Iran nuclear deal

A Republican senator calls a hearing on a Republican president’s nuclear weapons authority

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

From Justin Bieber to genotypes

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