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A road trip through the communities shouldering the U.S.’s nuclear missile revival

An AI model could speed up laborious and dangerous demining efforts

Scientists can finally predict a chemical’s odor without having a human sniff it

The U.S. is ramping up construction of new “plutonium pits” for nuclear weapons

These fallout maps show the toll of a potential nuclear attack on missile silos in the U.S. heartland

The U.S. should back away from updating its obsolescent nuclear weapons, in particular silo-launched missiles that needlessly risk catastrophe

The Pentagon is readying high-powered microwave weapons that are capable of invisible strikes against swarming combat drones

Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just invented one that avoids harmful refrigerant gases

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara peoples are learning more about the missiles siloed on their lands, and that knowledge has put the preservation of their culture and heritage in even starker relief.

The missiles on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota make it a potential target for a nuclear attack. And that doesn’t come close to describing what the reality would be for those on the ground.

A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on gender

Artificial intelligence models are getting bigger, along with the data sets used to train them. But scaling down could solve some big AI problems