There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the ...

Unlike the US and UK, where start-ups and governments are betting heavily on small modular reactors, France’s state-led ...

Extensive grazing could help protect landscapes from one of the most destructive impacts of climate change, but shepherds need more support.

Confirming classified space-control capabilities will not deter rivals on its own—Washington must now use this disclosure as a springboard for reciprocal transparency and risk-reduction measures ...

Beijing views "strategic stability" as a guarantee of non-interference, while Washington pays the phrase little mind. Ahead ...

More than half a century after the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) entered into force, it still has no standing system for verifying compliance. Since the last major attempt at closing that gap ...

Eden is senior research scholar (Emeritus) at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her scholarly work focuses on the military and society; science, technology, and ...

Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy at Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, a guest researcher at the German Institute for ...

AnnaJulia Yates is a research assistant at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

Seth Grae is chairman and chief executive officer of Lightbridge Corporation (Nasdaq: LTBR), a nuclear fuel technology company. Thomas Graham Jr. chaired Lightbridge’s board from 2009 to 2024.

Modern AI might be just the bridge a would-be terrorist needs to cross between thinking about a biological attack and pulling one off. Having hoovered up a vast swath of human knowledge, scientific ...