On January 27th, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will reveal the 2026 Doomsday Clock time. The announcement will occur ...

During the Cold War, two physicists became public "opponents" of the Pentagon's antiballistic missile systems. But they kept ...

Like climate change, the Trump administration’s efforts to remove climate data from government websites feel vast, intangible ...

We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and ...

Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, a health physicist and a nuclear ...

Disruptive technology stories that explore the artificial intelligence revolution and the influence of powerful technology ...

To deal with the range of strangeness and cruelty that 2025 offered,  the Bulletin’s multimedia team embarked on a variety of ...

In May, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a nice little family excursion to enjoy a local Washington, DC park. The ripples on the waters of Rock Creek must have looked particularly inviting, ...

Solar power. The history of a magazine. The impact of DOGE cuts on medical research. Russian trolls. Cyberstorms. Newly found research results from ...

Thomas Shea is an independent consultant with extensive experience in non-proliferation and IAEA safeguards, nuclear disarmament, and the global expansion of nuclear power. He recently contributed to ...

One of the defining themes of the past 11 months, and certainly one most pertinent to the climate beat, was “attacks on science and expertise,” which seem likely to continue into 2026.

Congressman Ted Lieu, in his third term in Congress, represents California’s 33rd District. In his first term he was elected president of the Democratic Freshman Class by his colleagues; last term he ...