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.

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?

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

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

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

The new nuclear age differs from previous eras in an important way: The current era is shaped by information abundance. But that abundance comes with a paradox: With more data there is also an ...

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, ...

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 ...

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; ...

Suzet McKinney is a former Bulletin Science and Security Board member. She is the principal and director of Life Sciences for Sterling Bay where she oversees relationships with the scientific, ...

Nina Lakhani is a senior reporter for Guardian US.

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 ...