Germany hasn't had an indigenous nuclear weapons program since 1945 and nobody in Berlin is asking for a German bomb. So why so many in the United States suggest otherwise?

After the recent US-Saudi Investment Summit, the White House heralded $1 trillion in business deals that give the US tech ...

NASA and the European Space Agency plan to bring samples back from Mars. Could they harbor a type of life that scientists warn could trigger mass extinctions on Earth?

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may soon loosen radiation exposure safety standards at nuclear plants and operations.

Risks of a serious crisis are rising. But for disaster response, the information environment has never been worse.

While Big Car kills many of us quickly, in deadly collisions, it is killing many more of us slowly, by polluting the ...

Negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conference documents published Saturday.

Lesley M. M. Blume is a journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author, most recently of Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World.

Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, ...

Jeff Terry is a professor of physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where his main research focus is on energy systems. His group works to develop new ways of dealing with radioactive waste; ...

Karen McVeigh has been a senior news reporter for the Guardian since December 2006. Before that, she freelanced for the Times following a five-year stint as The Scotsman’s London correspondent ...

Bill Taber is a mathematician at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Over the last 42 years he has overseen and participated in the development of the ground software systems ...