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Is Tucker Carlson Right About Cow Masks?
Unmasking the truth about livestock methane emissions and measurement. Read more →
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Break With Reality
The NRC Staff’s new alternative risk evaluation contains mathematically impossible conditions—and is impossible to use. Read more →
Bad Stove Science Is a Roadblock on the Path to Electrification
Actively courting the culture war and reframing everyday activities into eco-nightmares seems likely to generate… Read more →
What’s New In Cultivated Meat?
With work on many technical issues underway, research turns to culture. Read more →
Seed Prices Have Soared—Is Intellectual Property the Problem?
How intellectual property, regulation, and research can make agriculture more competitive. Read more →
Our Latest Press:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Evolves Environmental Review for Hermes Test Reactor, Yet Opportunities for Improvement Remain
- RELEASE: Letter from Breakthrough and Others Urges Congress to Invest in Public Agricultural Research in the 2023 Farm Bill
- RELEASE: NRC's Open Collaboration with Stakeholders is Key to Satisfying Congressional Mandate
- RELEASE: NRC Needs a Technology-Inclusive Reorganization and Stakeholder-Inclusive Engagement
Our Latest Report:
Sins of a Solar Empire
Breakthrough Journal No. 18 / Fall 2022
The New Nuclear Explosion
If there is one certainty for the climate, it may well be the environmental benefits of nuclear power
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