Satellite images reveal that China is building a second nuclear missile silo field. The discovery follows the…
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To reduce the burden on traditional data centers, improving on DNA data storage could be the key The pace at which data - such as photos, videos, and social media posts - are being generated is ramping up drastically, exceeding the scaling limits of traditional silicon-based data storage technologies, and…
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The possibility that nuclear weapons could be used in regional or global conflicts is growing, said a newly disclosed Pentagon doctrinal publication on nuclear war fighting that was updated last year. "Despite concerted US efforts to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in international affairs and to negotiate reductions in the…
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The Department of Defense is once again asking Congress for an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act for certain unclassified military information including records on critical infrastructure and military tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). The latest proposal was included in the Pentagon's draft of legislative language for the Fiscal Year 2022…
Read moreThe Department of Defense is once again asking Congress for an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act for certain unclassified military information including records on critical infrastructure and military…
Read moreEach year about 700 women die from pregnancy or birth complications in the U.S., the worst maternal mortality rate…
Read moreOne of the stranger features of nuclear weapons secrecy is the government’s ability to reach out and classify nuclear weapons-related information that has been privately generated without government involvement.
Read moreTo help catalyze innovation in the health and biomedical sciences, research and development (R&D) paradigms with a track record of producing ‘moonshot’-scale breakthroughs – such as the Advanced…
Read moreThe field of synthetic biology has enormous potential for constructively impacting society, already contributing products such as drugs, food ingredients, and living fertilizers. As the field continues to develop,…
Read moreThose persons who have authorized access to classified information that they believe is improperly classified are “encouraged and expected” to challenge the classification of that information (…
Read moreJust a small group of nationally-ranked universities are awarded the majority of federal research funding. In 2018, a study found that out of…
Read moreThe world will be “increasingly out of balance and contested at every level” over the next twenty years due to the pressures of demographic, environmental, economic and technological change,…
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