His return to the White House puts the world’s second-largest climate polluter on an emissions trajectory we can’t afford.

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Jennifer Doudna, the co-developer of CRISPR, says there’s a “coming revolution” in climate-adapted crops and animals.

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Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all. Tech companies have been ...

The US, which is currently the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas emitter and has added more climate pollution to the atmosphere than any other nation, is now very unlikely to hit Biden’s 2030 goal ...

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What a floundering military goggle project reveals about where our experiences with the technology are headed next, according ...