External Affairs Minister underlines gaps in mechanisms and emphasised India’s commitment to global biosecurity.

Oct. 5 -- For combatants who lack the money to spend on high-tech killing instruments, biological weapons offer grisly appeal. They are cheap, easy to make, and simple to conceal — and, since Sept. 11 ...

A joint hazard assessment team member takes hazmat readings in a simulated hot zone during Kauai County Exercise 2017 at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, on Aug. 29, 2017. (Hawaii ...

External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday warned that the misuse of biological weapons by non-state actors is no ...

On Aug. 17, the Department of Defense released its updated Biodefense Posture Review designed to achieve “a resilient total force that deters the use of bioweapons, rapidly responds to natural ...

EAM Jaishankar warns non-state actors could misuse biological weapons; urges modernization of BWC and stronger global ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the ...

S Jaishankar calls for modernizing the 1975 Biological Weapons Convention to address new threats and enhance verification and ...

This report offers a summary of the presentations from an international workshop, Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, held October 31 - November 3 ...

Humans today are developing perhaps the most powerful technology in our history: artificial intelligence. The societal harms of AI — including discrimination, threats to democracy, and the ...

Jailbroken large language models (LLMs) and generative AI chatbots — the kind any hacker can access on the open Web — are capable of providing in-depth, accurate instructions for carrying out ...

If you puncture the ovary of a wasp called Microplitis demolitor, viruses squirt out in vast quantities, shimmering like iridescent blue toothpaste. “It’s very beautiful and just amazing that there’s ...