Warfare

A Rhode Island start-up is working to recycle spent nuclear fuel into long-lasting power systems for the military

From emergency oil reserves to nuclear scrutiny, bigger hail, and research on a connection between the aging gut and the brain

GPS spoofing is distorting vessel positions and deepening the risk in one of the world’s most important shipping lanes

The conflict in the Middle East is causing the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” the International Energy Agency says

Iranian residents have reported headaches, difficulty breathing, and oil-contaminated rain settling on buildings and cars after the bombing of oil depots

Russia’s war has left many of Ukraine’s world-class observatories in ruins—but the besieged nation’s astronomers already have plans to rebuild and recover

As Anthropic releases its most autonomous agents yet, a mounting clash with the military reveals the impossible choice between global scaling and a “safety first” ethos

A sweeping U.S. missile defense program comes with many risks, costs and uncertainties, analysts say

An ongoing civil war in Sudan has forced millions of people to flee their homes and move to camps, where a lack of water and sanitation infrastructure, along with heavy rains, are fueling a massive cholera outbreak. What role does the environment play in how the outbreak is spreading?

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But the war in Ukraine is making that help increasingly hard to find

American military engineers designed the GBU-57/B bomb to devastate deeply buried bunkers without radioactive fallout. It’s the only nonnuclear weapon that can reach Iran’s hardest target

Iranian Shahed drones, Ukrainian quadcopters and the U.S.’s Golden Horde program reveal three paths to massed autonomy, and each rewrites the rules of air defense