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A health care worker in China waits for a coronavirus patient.

Trump touts biodefense strategy but slashes funding to detect and combat outbreaks like coronavirus

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

Seth Lederman, the CEO of Tonix against a backdrop of vaccinia virus.

A biotech firm made a smallpox-like virus on purpose. Nobody seems to care

By Gregory D. Koblentz | Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology

Men at a seafood stall in Wuhan, China.

Coronavirus or antibiotic resistance: Our appetite for animals (wild and domestic) poses big disease risks

By Laura H. Kahn | Analysis, Biosecurity

Suzet mckinney Asha George Rachel Bronson coronavirus

Discussion: What you need to know about the Coronavirus

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Multimedia

Ambulances wait outside an emergency room.

If the coronavirus outbreak grows, can a strained US health care system keep up?

By Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity

Health and Human Services Sec. Alex Azar at a press briefing.

The coronavirus outbreak: 3 ways the United States was (and is) unprepared

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

By the end of 1943, the US Navy had installed 120 electromechanical Bombe machines like the one above, which were used to decipher secret messages encrypted by German Enigma machines, including messages from German U-boats. Built for the Navy by the Dayton company National Cash Register, the US Bombe was an improved version of the British Bombe, which was itself based on a Polish design. Credit: National Security Agency

Keeping classified information secret in a world of quantum computing

By Jake Tibbetts | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

A protest against India's new controversial citizenship law.

Fake news epidemic: Coronavirus breeds hate and disinformation in India and beyond

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

Of quarantines and robots: How smart are US and Chinese efforts to combat the Wuhan coronavirus?

By Saskia Popescu | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Nina Pham is discharged from the hospital.

Outbreaks of lethal diseases like Ebola and the Wuhan coronavirus happen regularly. The US government just cut funding for the hospitals that deal with them

By Saskia Popescu | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Facebook removes pro-Soleimani Instagram content, calling it support for terrorism. Laurence Tribe says FB has it wrong

By Matt Field | Technology and Security

Illustration depicting a hypersonic missile

Hypersonic missiles: Why the new “arms race” is going nowhere fast

By Andrew W. Reddie | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons