Risk Mitigation

Risk Mitigation

spillback
COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.
Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.
russia cyberattack
Russia's cyberattacks against Ukraine have been prolific and ongoing for several years. The future of war may begin in cyberspace.
recreational drug use
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This man did over 150 drugs to help teach others how to use them safely.
A line of mailboxes in the countryside
Someone breaks into a mailbox that stores letters waiting to be sent and grabs some of them in hopes they’ll contain a check that’s been filled in. That's just the start.
A woman stands looking at her phone in the center of an artistic display of data.
“Think defensively about how you can protect yourself from an almost inevitable attack, rather than assuming you’ll avoid harm.”
A man trading on two different laptops
Between fake vaccine passports and targeted supply chain attacks, things are only getting more risky.
Space junk illustrating the effects of the Russian anti-satellite weapons test.
On Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had […]
How to protect earth from an asteroid
“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined."
Only 17 years after its discovery have we learned we’re safe from asteroid Apophis. Ever since its 2004 discovery, asteroid 99942 Apophis has threatened planet Earth. Asteroid Apophis has been measured […]
The NSF’s new, cutting-edge solar observatory shows us the Sun as never before. Here’s why we need to know. On December 12, 2019, the world’s most powerful solar observatory — the National Science […]
That’s not how probability works. Or asteroids, for that matter. “Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, […]