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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

But what does the future of great-power warfare look like and is the West a match for the challenges ahead? First off, "future warfare" is already here. Many of the aspects of a major conflict ...

Where do we come from? Where are we going? These are some of the big questions biological anthropology seeks to answer, using the principles of evolution as a backdrop for formulating and testing ...

There are a lot of ways to spend a fair amount of money calculating your so-called "biological age." As a longevity reporter who's been covering the science of aging and age-related diseases for a ...

The PhD in Biological Sciences is the terminal degree for students who wish to eventually pursue a leadership role in academic, governmental or industrial settings. To take on these roles, it is ...

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 ...