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A quantum processor.

Quantum computing, biotech, and climate change among threats of most concern to US

By Elisabeth Eaves | Artificial Intelligence, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Cyber Security, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Headshots of Ariane Tabatabai, Duyeon Kim, Pavel Podvig, Laura H. Kahn, Filippa Lentzos, Dawn Stover, Michael C. Horowitz, and Jeff Terry.

Best columns of 2018

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Columnists, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

A black biohazard symbol against a yellow and black smoke-like background.

A highly hackable US biodefense system

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout via Creative Commons.

The Russian disinformation attack that poses a biological danger

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity

Medical staff treat injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo, Syria, in October 2012. (Photo credit: Voice of America.)

A form of biological warfare in Syria and Yemen

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

Plum pox resistant plums, created by genetic engineering.

What’s cooking for climate change? Techno-fixing dinner for 10 billion

By Pat Mooney | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology

Jennifer Exelby leads a team of chemical-agent handlers at the US Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. Photo Credit: US Army

A wearable to detect chemical weapons

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, What We’re Reading

A transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall, shown at a magnification of approximately 200,000. Photo credit: Graham Beards

Bacteriophages: a promising approach to fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

An aphid, on a leaf.

Insect Allies to the rescue?

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology, What We’re Reading

Ground beef

But will they eat it?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Synthetic biology, What We’re Reading

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the newly re-opened US Embassy in Havana in August, 2015. The embassy was largely shuttered following a mysterious attack on US diplomats in 2016.

Microwave weapons may have caused diplomats’ mystery symptoms

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Ventilator blues: Infectious disease expert Tom Inglesby on the next major pandemic

By | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies