At the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board moved the Doomsday Clock forward from 89 seconds to 85 seconds to midnight, citing a failure in global leadership.

At least 225 US scientists who conduct research in Greenland have signed a Statement in Solidarity with Greenland this month.

Experts can identify and address artificial intelligence's weak points using a database tracking the technology’s harms.

As President Trump tries to coerce European leaders over Greenland and seems ready to break the transatlantic alliance, the crisis should serve as a catalyst for deeper and smarter Europeanization of ...

A circular economy is one in which products do not end up as waste but are instead repaired, reused, or transformed into new materials. This stands in contrast to the linear economy currently dominant ...

President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have taken a wrecking ball approach to vaccine development, vaccine recommendation, and global health funding. The Bulletin asked ...

Like Iran, governments worldwide rely on internet shutdowns to suppress populations, rig elections and collectively punish ...

In August of 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, advising him that the process of nuclear fission could potentially be used to create a powerful atomic ...

Yarrow Axford directs a paleoclimate research group at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she was the William Deering Professor in Geological Sciences. She lives in Massachusetts.

Rhodes is the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. It was the first of four volumes ...

Dmitri Trenin is a historian, policy analyst, and director of the Carnegie Moscow Center—a think tank and regional affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also chairs the ...