The cult Aum Shinrikyo is infamous for its deadly chemical weapons attacks on metropolitan Tokyo in the 1990s. Less well known is the ambitious biological weapons program that preceded the group’s ...

A compound developed by British scientists early in World War II as a treatment against chemical weapons has value against today's threat of bioterrorism, according to Indiana University School of ...

Could new AI technology help unleash a devastating pandemic? That’s a concern top government officials and tech leaders have raised in recent months. One study last summer found that students could ...

In 2001, not long after the 9/11 attacks, a mysterious spate of anthrax attacks by mail killed five people and sickened 17. What the FBI calls “the worst biological attacks in U.S. history” led to ...

Not only did last night’s episode of Fringe have some great nipple commentary, occasioned by a virus that Hulks people out, but it also brought us some closure on a big mystery. Called “The ...

The Venezuelan government is reportedly cracking down on potential COVID-19 victims as “bioterrorists,” and harassing experts and doctors who contradict its official line on coronavirus. The Nicolás ...

Madeline Drexler is a Boston-based science journalist. Her new book is "Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections." BOSTON — On Fox TV earlier this month, host Bill O’Reilly asked whether the ...

The Postal Service chose the Lancaster center, which employs 560 people and processes 1.7 million pieces of mail each day, to test the device because naturally occurring anthrax infects livestock.

Where did the latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the English county of Surrey start? Public suspicion fell quickly on two labs, one government and one private, which both work on the same ...

Investigators still don't know where it came from, but the anthrax that killed two Washington postal workers seems to have the hallmarks of a sophisticated weapon built by someone who knows how to ...

Gary Juffa, governor of Papua New Guinea’s Oro province, is one of the country’s most outspoken critics of the logging industry. Juffa said he’s had to resort to the courts to force out three logging ...

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - A compound developed by British scientists early in World War II as a treatment against chemical weapons has value against today's threat of bioterrorism, according to Indiana ...