Chemical/Biological Weapons

Researchers seek deeper understanding when the stakes are so highCredit: Composite image by Timothy Holland | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory We've all met people so smart and informed that we don't understand what they're…

Credit: Adapted from ACS Materials Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.0c00516 Exposure to some odorless, colorless and tasteless gases, such as nerve agents, can be toxic or even lethal. And having the ability to detect…

Credit: Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock / Xavier MARCHANT Humans, wildlife, and the environment are all interconnected and play a role in one another's health and well-being. Sentinel species, such as birds, are good indicators of…

Credit: Centre for Existential Risk, Cambridge University During the summer of 2019, a global team of experts put their heads together to define the key questions facing the UK government when it comes to biological security.…

Ultra-trace radiation detection technique sets new global standard for measuring the nearly immeasurableCredit: (Photo by Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) RICHLAND, Wash.?Unless radon gas is discovered in…

Study shows improvements to chemical sensing chip that aims to quickly and accurately identify drugs and other trace chemicalsCredit: Huaxiu Chen, University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo researchers are reporting…

Related to new research published in the January issue of Science Translational Medicine, Patrick McNutt, PhD, of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, was part of the research team that demonstrated a new "Trojan horse"…

Swedish Government's assigned todayCredit: Mikael Wallerstedt Today, the Swedish Government decided to assign to Uppsala University the task of setting up a new national knowledge centre for research on nuclear disarmament. With an…

Detector can identify radioactive isotopes with high resolution Security officials are tasked with preventing criminals from smuggling dangerous materials into a country, and detecting nuclear substances has been difficult and costly. Now…

The system developed by Texas A&M researchers can separate different cell types within microdroplets.Credit: Dr. Arum Han/Texas A&M University College of Engineering To develop effective therapeutics against pathogens,…

Team to train brucellosis researchers on latest techniques in microbiological and epidemiological research, biosafety and genomic analyzes Northern Arizona University researcher Jeff Foster is leading an international effort to study and…

Following the attacks in France, this new study out today shows terrorists are using the pandemic as an opportunity to grow stronger, and ISIS have shown interest in biological warfare The uncertainty and confusion caused by the COVID-19…

Credit: Photo by Siri Sjolin People who have been exposed to chemical warfare agents (CWAs) feel uncertain, decades after the exposure, about their survival and ability to build a family, a University of Gothenburg study shows. Women…

Wheeler Scholarship will help scientists develop non-animal test methodsCredit: PETA Washington -- For preventing countless animals from being used in chemical tests, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew…

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2020 -- Over the last century, the compound ammonium nitrate has been involved in at least 30 disasters and terrorist attacks. Under normal circumstances, it's totally harmless…

Credit: U.S. Army RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - A U.S. Army senior scientist earned a 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Government Leadership Award in the Defenders category. Dr. Stephen Lee, a senior scientist in interdisciplinary research…

A study carried out from the Turin university in collaboration with the Advanced Energy Technology Institute CNR-ITAE and published on the journal Scientific Reports, suggest a low cost technology to store heat during the summer and use…

A study conducted at the Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, presents a solar desalination device capable of…

Leopoldina member Charpentier is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a genome editing method The Berlin-based biochemist and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, a Leopoldina member since 2015, is being honored…