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 ...

The much more apparent horrors of chemical warfare led, in 1925, to the Geneva Protocol. It prohibits the use of chemical and biological agents, but not research and development of these agents.

Chemical and biological warfare isn't new. Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and longbows. Some examples: Unrestricted use of chemical agents caused 1 million of the 26 million ...

Irish photographer Dara McGrath documents British landscapes associated with chemical and biological warfare. His work, Project Cleansweep, takes its name from a 2011 Ministry of Defence report on ...

William C. Patrick III spent over three decades at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the U.S. Army's base for biological weapons research. From 1951 to 1969, he developed germ agents for warfare.

“Throwing a body into the well was an attempt at biological warfare,” researchers noted.

According to Gregory Koblentz, author of “Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security,” biological weapons are not particularly useful on the battlefield, are developed in ...

Throughout history, sieges have been a testament to the resilience, strategy, and endurance of both attackers and defenders.

They may have gone about their daily life: Crafting stone tools, eating birds and mushrooms, engraving symbols on rocks ...

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 ...