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Draganfly drone

Can a pandemic drone help stop the spread of COVID-19?

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity

President Donald Trump at a press conference.

Assessing the US government response to the coronavirus

By Daniel M. Gerstein | Biosecurity

Twenty-first century perspectives on the far-from-toothless Biological Weapons Convention

By Glenn Cross, Lynn C. Klotz | Biosecurity

A pandemic of bad science

By Walter Scheirer | Biosecurity, Science Denial

A coronavirus testing site

Why the United States needs a new pandemic-fighting federal agency

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity

A duck receives a vaccine.

The pandemic risk of an accidental lab leak of enhanced flu virus: unacceptably high

By Lynn C. Klotz | Analysis, Biosecurity

Fact-checking organizations are checking coronavirus-related misinformation.

Fact-checking networks fight coronavirus infodemic

By Jan Oledan, Julia Ilhardt, Giorgio Musto, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

President Donald Trump at a press conference.

Hear, see, speak no COVID: Why the Trump administration is bungling the response to the pandemic

By Saskia Popescu, Gregory D. Koblentz | Biosecurity

Police officer with a gas mask.

Why is tear gas banned in war but not from peaceful protests?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 in yellow.

Did the SARS-CoV-2 virus arise from a bat coronavirus research program in a Chinese laboratory? Very possibly.

By Milton Leitenberg | Biosecurity

A looted Chicago storefront

What the protests tell us: Invest in social equity, not nuclear weapons

By Rachel Bronson | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Technology and Security

Passengers wait for the train with masks on.

Iran’s coronavirus response: A lesson in what not to do

By Vahid Yücesoy | Biosecurity