The US Air Force just launched a nuclear-capable missile at staggering speed, but officials insist it’s just routine. The timing, however, comes just weeks after experts warned that World War 3 may ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement — which rates how close humanity is from ending — citing ...

By Evelyn Tischer On January 22, 2025, the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, TPNW, celebrated its fourth birthday.

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It’s clear there’s no reason for optimism that H5N1 will fade away as a minor nuisance. To the contrary, the situation has ...

Lucy Shapiro is a professor of developmental biology at Stanford University School of Medicine and is the Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine. In 2018, she addressed the ...

Emerging technologies, climate change and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are among the leading factors that have seen the world move extremely close to total elimination, scientists have ...

Humanity has never been so close to destroying itself. At least that's according to nuclear scientists, according to the ...

Fires spread by hurricane force winds at temperatures hotter than the sun would consume everything and anyone for miles ...

New atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...