A Johns Hopkins-led research alliance across the country seeks to understand and mitigate the world's most lethal weapons ...

Bill Gates has u-turned on his climate change stance, declaring it won't cause humanity's extinction. The Microsoft founder ...

Policy opinion leaders believe a biological attack is both more likely and easier to execute than a nuclear strike, highlighting concerns around bioterrorism and the nation’s readiness to ...

By James Revill In his address to the UN General Assembly, US president Donald Trump announced his intention to “lead an ...

Russia supports a call by U.S. President Donald Trump for a comprehensive global ban on biological weapons, Kremlin spokesman ...

The investment in Biopreparat reflected a Soviet calculus that biological agents could provide asymmetrical leverage against the West. In the depths of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched a ...

The center has live samples of Ebola and smallpox. Moscow -- A gas explosion shook a Soviet-era biological weapons lab in Siberia that houses samples of Ebola and smallpox on Monday. At least one ...

OpenAI has warned that its new ChatGPT Agent feature poses heightened bioweapon risks. The tool is designed to automate everyday tasks, but safety researchers found the model could also potentially ...

Pakistan has expressed its firm commitment to advancing the objectives of the Conventions prohibiting Biological and Chemical ...

The United States remains critically unprepared to defend its agriculture sector against biological attacks, despite growing threats from foreign adversaries and terrorist organizations, according to ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, the first US law setting child-safety rules for AI chatbots, from crisis redirects to transparency requirements. Hollywood pushes back against OpenAI’s Sora 2 as ...

Imagine a country facing rising tensions with its neighbors. In a small research lab that looks no different from hundreds of others worldwide, scientists quietly tweak an ordinary influenza virus.