The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II; both the U.S. and the Soviet Union stockpiled ...

Powerful new models, combined with novel lab tools, could make it much easier to develop killer viruses. The world should ...

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence ...

Researchers are divided on whether the rapid improvement in AI technologies in recent years makes bioterror or war more ...

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 ...

Russia has revisited accusations that Washington was violating international treaties on the prohibition of chemical and biological weapons, the latest in a series of unsubstantiated claims by ...

If the Biological Weapons Convention can’t be toughened because of diplomatic frictions, like-minded countries should at least agree on a set of best practices, as they’ve begun to do with AI.

Richard Lugar is remembered not just in his home state of Indiana but across the world for many accomplishments throughout ...

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 ...