Ukraine's use of low-cost quadcopters shows how drones can lower the barrier to obtaining long-range precision strike capabilities.

After abruptly firing all the members of an important CDC committee that helps set vaccine policy, Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed eight new members on Wednesday, including some ...

President Trump and his aids brokered a series of AI deals worth billions during their Gulf tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. Credit: White House Photo by Molly Riley President Donald Trump’s ...

With the federal government pulling back from disaster preparation and response, there is a need for other types of ...

Four top Princeton University experts sketch a possible regional multinational nuclear consortium whose initial core partners ...

Global peace and sustainability require a comprehensive approach to ensure one does not come at the expense of the other.

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna’s new book, The AI Con, published in May 2025 by Harper. Used with permission. National, regional, and municipal leaders ...

The US nuclear power industry is justifiably apprehensive about its future under the second Trump administration. President Donald Trump’s predilection for taking a sledgehammer to both the federal ...

In the world of biomedical research, one institution towers over the rest—the National Institutes of Health, or NIH. It can be argued that it’s largely because of this 138-year-old government agency—a ...

There are trillions upon trillions of numbers in the world. We use numbers to describe almost every conceivable thing in the universe. But there is one number that surpasses all others for the ...

According to a recent press report, the Energy Department has identified 8,500 employees who are “nonessential” and therefore vulnerable to being laid off by Elon Musk’s chainsaw-welding wrecking crew ...

Amid a supremely chaotic news environment—dominated by Trump’s deportations, Trump’s funding cuts and layoffs, Trump’s tariffs and, of course, the tumultuous stock market the tariffs produced—one ...