A recent project asked what the telltale signs of a bioweapons program would be? There are gaps in the information members of the global bioweapons treaty have access to, but new approaches and ...

The Chinese military is building sophisticated biological weapons and small-scale electronic tools made with nanotechnology that could be used in covert warfare, a major study warns. “China’s ...

What happens when science meets war? During World War II, Allied forces secretly transformed a peaceful Canadian island into ...

In April of 1979, people from the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk began falling strangely ill with inexplicable symptoms. Soviet ...

Editor's Note: Joshua Lederberg, chairman of The Scientist's Editorial Advisory Board, edited the book Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat, to be published this spring (May 1999) by The MIT Press.

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 ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Monday for stronger efforts to protect the world against biological weapons, which he said pose a growing threat due to ...

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists or ...

An OpenAI report found there's only a slight chance GPT-4 could be used to help create biological threats. The report is from OpenAI's "preparedness" team, which studies potential "catastrophic" risks ...