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December 15, 2025

China and the United States Are Racing Towards Different Ends in AI

While China sees AI as another tool for controlling its populace, the United States is rushing to create AI that will give it global economic dominance.

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

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December 16, 2025

The Generations of Public Service We Lost in 2025

UCS Science Network

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December 15, 2025

Disinformation Undermines Our Right to Science

Kate Cell
Senior Climate Campaign Manager

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Senior Manager of Government Affairs

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Global Security Analyst

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December 23, 2014

UCS’s Standard for Nuclear Power Safety

Dave Lochbaum
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December 22, 2014

The Vienna Conference on Nuclear Weapons

Sean Meyer
Former Contributor

December 19, 2014

Confronting the Elephant in the Room: Differentiation of Obligations in the Paris Climate Agreement

Alden Meyer
Former Contributor

December 19, 2014

For Some, Climate Change Already Means Adapting or Saying Goodbye

UCS Science Network

December 19, 2014

8 Ways It's Been a Great Year for Renewable Energy

John Rogers
Associate Director, Energy Analytics

December 18, 2014

Governor Cuomo is Not a Scientist—So He Asked the Experts

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

December 18, 2014

What Was the Top #ScienceFail for 2014?

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

December 18, 2014

Interior Department Updates Scientific Integrity Policy and Creates Handbook

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

December 17, 2014

New Study Shows Electric Vehicles Can Have Significant Climate and Air Quality Benefits Compared to Gasoline Cars

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

December 17, 2014

Google and the EPA’s Clean Power Plan: Leaders and Fortune 500 Companies Unite in Support of Renewable Energy

Steve Clemmer
Director of Energy Research & Analysis

December 17, 2014

Then vs Now: Progress on Nuclear Weapons since the End of the Cold War

David Wright
Former Contributor

December 16, 2014

FDA Head Speaks Up for Science

Celia Wexler
Former contributor

December 16, 2014

Weighing In on Obesity—What BMI Can Tell You

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

December 16, 2014

Fuel Cells vs Plug-ins: Both are Winners

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

December 16, 2014

An Electrical Cable Fire at the Quad Cities Nuclear Plant

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

December 15, 2014

Who Else Stood Up for Science in 2014? Our Members’ Picks

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

December 15, 2014

Global Warming Fact: More than Half of All Industrial CO2 Pollution Has Been Emitted Since 1988

Peter Frumhoff
Former Director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist

December 15, 2014

Obama’s Nuclear Legacy

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

December 12, 2014

6 Reasons I Am Optimistic COP 20 in Lima Will Help Avert the Climate Crisis

Angela Anderson
Former Contributor

December 12, 2014

Busting the Myth of “Job-Killing EPA Regulations”

Ken Kimmell
Former President

December 11, 2014

The NRC and the Value of Life—Revisited

David Wright
Former Contributor

December 11, 2014

Seeking Stories of Abuse of Open Records Laws

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

December 11, 2014

5 Facts About Nissan's Battery Manufacturing Plant

Rachael Nealer
Former Contributor

December 11, 2014

Interfering in the Science: Congress Targets Sage Grouse Protections in Cromnibus Bill

Gretchen Goldman
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