Genetic analysis has confirmed a detail of an important Norse saga, telling us more about someone dubbed the "Well-man".

Advances in biological research likely will permit development of a new class of advanced biological warfare (ABW) agents engineered to elicit novel effects. In addition, biotechnology will have ...

University of Maryland entomologists have uncovered a unique relationship between two species of fungi known for their ...

The United States faces a series of threats to its homeland. These emerging challenges come from missile proliferation in rogue states; the potential use by terrorists of chemical, biological, ...

This early biological warfare is recorded in “Sverris Saga,” a contemporaneous biography of the king, who reigned over much of Norway from 1184 to 1202. Scholars have long debated the ...

They included anthrax, subsequently identified by the Pentagon as a key component of the Iraqi biological warfare programme. The newspaper says: 'The Commerce Department also approved the export ...

and any potential chemical or biological scenarios, and prepping commanders for war in the shadows of mushroom clouds or fighting through gas attacks. Once the Soviet Union fell, nuclear experts ...

The Russian site, called Sergiev Posad-6, had been quiet for decades, but it had a notorious Cold War past: It had once been a major research center for biological weapons, with a history of ...

A team of University of Arizona researchers has received $2.1 million from the U.S. Army to build a hand-held version of a biological and chemical sensing device.

Satellite images reveal the formation of a sprawling new complex that experts say bears the hallmarks of a high-security ...

But when I saw the image of Albert Einstein peering out of a petri dish in the office of Christopher Voigt, the chairman of the Department of Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of ...

Technologies developed across multiple disciplines in the biological sciences will have a profound global impact and concurrently have the potential to revolutionize biological warfare by ...