The CDC is recommending ways to avoid the airborne spread of COVID-19. Here’s a satirical guide to the new guidance.

When did the president catch the virus, and who could he have given it to?

The European Commission is on the right path among government institutions in putting issues of biosecurity and biosafety on the public agenda, yet even their efforts demonstrate how far governments have to go.

The Bulletin is hosting a conference of top virologists and biological experts in Geneva, Switzerland, this week. The Pathogens Project will examine ways to ensure pathogen research is conducted as safely as possible.

Halloween advice: Prepare for the zombie apocalypse By A key feature of most zombie fiction is how unexpected the flesh-eating onslaught always is. Communities are caught completely off-guard, and leaders generally find themselves unprepared for the emergency. Society collapses, and the world struggles to learn how to survive in the new reality. But does the … Continued

NASA and the European Space Agency are planning to retrieve rocks and dust from the Mars for study on Earth. The agencies don’t think the samples will contain anything that’s alive. But nobody can put the potential risk of Mars samples at zero.

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There has been a lack of research and education into the effects of depleted uranium munitions on post-conflict communities in Iraq and Syria, and cleanup efforts by both UN member countries and affected communities have failed.

Donald Trump wants to break up with WHO over its alleged bungling of the pandemic response. But since their origins 150 years ago, international health regimes have been a reflection of the nations that designed them. So when the United States accuses WHO, who is really to blame?

The new coronavirus has plunged us into an infectious-disease crisis. As we respond, the years-long debate over N.B.A.F. raises worrying questions about American biodefense policy. Will more bio-labs help us fight outbreaks? Or are we building too many labs in too many places?

Anyone familiar with the history of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) will know that for years participants in BWC meetings have spoken about the importance of education in preventing the malevolent dual-use of biological technologies. Yet for all the bluster, the practical results regarding, for example, scientists' understanding of the convention and their obligations under it, have been limited.

One concrete reflection of how children are experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic can be seen in something they do all the time: draw pictures.

Disinformation campaigns undermine arms control regimes and norms. Here are five ways to build information resilience and spread truthful information that prevents lies from taking root.

Our regular columnists tackle an eventful year.

Public health departments are using AI to do work that people used to do, including generating reports and communications. As agencies increasingly look to chatbots to ease their staffing challenges, how should they incorporate technologies that could also play a major role in spreading misinformation and disinformation?

Evidence is emerging that the Kremlin is applying its standard disinformation playbook to the global coronavirus pandemic. But that is a dangerous game.

If one listened closely to the discussions around the recent meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the upcoming review of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), one might have heard a distant rumble of concern. These worries stem from the widespread recognition that advances in the life sciences are progressing at a rate faster than the treaty seems able to keep pace with.

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) have evolved in interestingly different ways in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The CWC and its major international organization -- the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons -- have become rather opaque to civil society, despite a significant program of official activities.