Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once suggested US health scientists "give infectious disease a break." Trump just picked him for health ...

Richard F. Post (1918-2015) was a physicist and the head of the magnetic mirror program in controlled thermonuclear research at what was then the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California ...

Will fusion as an energy source finally become an everyday, commercial reality in the next decade or so—or not come to ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...

The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...

Founded by scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been alerting humanity to the ...

The uncertainty does not exist only in the United States. Officials and analysts the world over wonder what Trump’s “peace ...

Joseph Cirincione is a nuclear policy analyst and author with over 35 years of experience in the field.

Experts in public health, vaccines, and other health and biology-related fields are concerned about what the next Trump ...

The Bulletin’s disruptive technology vertical tracks a wide variety of scientific and technological advances that could—either in the present or the future—pose an existential threat to humanity.

President-elect Donald Trump is now poised to once again withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, and to ...