Public health experts warn that we don't know enough about how the virus impacts kids, but we do know schools could create "super-spreading" locations.

Scientists say the GBSD project is outdated and the result of lobbying rather than a clear sense of what it will achieve

Trump may be defeated, but his attitude toward the pandemic still pervades the country.

“There is no such thing as a smoke-free part of a restaurant," says Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist from Harvard University.

Internal communications exclusively obtained by The Nation show that ICE has singled out journalists and social media users for retaliation.

Traveling by car may be the safest option in a pandemic — but road trips still come with risks.

Seventy-five years later, we commemorate the nuclear attacks and the unspeakable human suffering they inflicted, which remind us of the uniquely destructive capability of nuclear weapons and the...

Testing is not a substitute for other safety measures.

Experts in medicine and public health are expressing growing concerns, in some cases even alarm, at the possibility that the FDA will bend to political pressure and grant early approval to coronavi...

Recapturing unused green cards and preventing green cards from going unused in the future would help restore the immigrant population in the United States to what Congress intended while generating...

Testing is not a substitute for other safety measures.

Ninety percent of Americans support organ donation. It’s something we agree on across the country. But… thousands of organs go unrecovered…

To empower new voices to start their career in nuclear weapons studies, we're pairing emerging leaders with a senior academic or policy expert to co-author a research project that provides a creative...

Delta Air Lines is promoting how safe it is to fly on the carrier but most passengers have not returned to the skies amid the coronavirus. Scientists and safety researchers are still trying to nail...

These new leaders will direct policy at DOE, coordinate across the Administration, and enact President Joe Biden’s vision.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federation of American Scientists (FAS), in collaboration with Congressman Bill Foster (D, IL-11) and his office, has launched a new Science Council to: The Science Council...

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss COVID's fall surge. According to the Covid Tracking Project, the US is averaging 48,000 new cases a day, the…

Despite progress in reducing nuclear weapon arsenals since the Cold War, the world’s combined inventory of nuclear warheads remains at a very high level.

There’s a lot that scientists still don’t know about Covid-19.

Now is the moment to act so that we never have to experience an authoritarian version of the U.S.

Cruise operator Carnival expects to reduce its fleet by 13 ships, or nearly 9% of its capacity, as the company continues to burn cash amid sailing suspensions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Debate over Covid-19 transmission has been given added urgency after more than 200 scientists urged the WHO to recognise airborne spread

The Chinese missile silo program constitutes the most extensive silo construction since the US and Soviet missile silo construction during the Cold War.

Despite progress in reducing nuclear weapon arsenals since the Cold War, the world’s combined inventory of nuclear warheads remains at a very high level.

[UPDATED] The Biden administration has decided to add a new nuclear gravity bomb to the US arsenal. The bomb will be known as the B61-13.

At the Federation of American Scientists, we know firsthand that progress happens when the science community has a seat at the policymaking table.

To empower new voices to start their career in nuclear weapons studies, we're pairing emerging leaders with a senior academic or policy expert to co-author a research project that provides a creative...

This Nuclear Notebook examines Russia’s nuclear arsenal, which includes a stockpile of approximately 4,477 warheads. Of these, about 1,588 strategic warheads are deployed on ballistic missiles and at...