Thomas Kelly is a political scientist specializing in biosecurity policy and federal oversight of high-risk research. He ...

As the administration considers new policies for gain-of-function research, scientists have an important role to play in evaluating risks and benefits—but only with a commitment to fair and rigorous ...

The death of famed biologist Paul Ehrlich on March 13 at 93 has occasioned a flurry of commentary in the press and on social ...

With tactics ranging from choking off trade in drug ingredients in and around the Strait of Hormuz to launching a cyber ...

Papers like this are like kindling for anyone 'just asking questions' about climate change, or 'doing their own research,' ...

The Wall Street Journal thinks Iran can't make rational choices in its strategic calculus. But Tehran has done so for nearly ...

Nordic countries should not contribute to increasing the existential dangers that nuclear weapons already pose to European ...

The supposed national security threat that the Trump administration has used as an excuse to try to kill five energy projects ...

In 1978, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a cover story titled “Is mankind warming the Earth?” The answer then, as now, was an “unqualified ‘yes.’” Between July 2023 and June 2024, the ...

The potential reach of the state into our individual biology and genetic makeup is expanding at an unprecedented rate. Global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have crystallized just how quickly and ...

Professor of public policy at the University of Maryland and former environmental and security lead in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy ...

Did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shorten the war, and were they necessary to force the Japanese surrender? Many people believe the answer to both questions is yes: In dropping the ...