Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have determined people who were vaccinated against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus may also be protected against the lethal 1918 Spanish influenza virus, which killed more than 50 million people worldwide.
In a recent peer-reviewed article, Dean C. Alexander from Western Illinois University's School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration, and Jamie L. Johnson, from WIU's health sciences department, proposed an academic institution that will "aid in educating and training future homeland security and intelligence professionals in a more effective and efficient paradigm than currently exists."
360° surveillance video promises high-res detail, multiple views, and DVR features.
360° surveillance video promises high-res detail, multiple views, and DVR features.
While no terrorist has managed to deploy a dirty bomb, the same cannot be said of chemical agents. In a series of tests still underway researchers are using lasers to scrub surfaces clean of sulfur mustard gas and VX, a nerve agent. The tests have proved successful so far, even on complex, porous surfaces like concrete.
The Center for Adult and Continuing Education at Misericordia University is introducing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government, Law and National Security (GLNS) during the fall semester for adult learners with an associates degree to prepare them to enter the expanding national and homeland security workforce within the government and private sector.
Terrorist attacks in the United States, over the past four decades, have centered on New York City, the vast majority of them involving bombs or explosives, says a new report from the University of Maryland-based National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). Maryland’s Gary LaFree describes bombs as “weapons of choice.”
The Oklahoma City bombing 15 years ago, marked the beginning of a dramatic rise in U.S. terror attacks by individuals rather than organized groups, concludes research from the University of Maryland. Since then, individual attacks have increased nearly seven-fold, representing a third of all U.S. terror, says the report from the Maryland-based START Center.
Last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI jointly warned of terrorist interest in attacking crowded stadiums. Small wonder: A bomb or noxious plume released over a throng of captive sports fans would cause major-league mayhem.
Crowdsourcing cell phones to detect toxic chemicals.
Is that lunchbox under the park bench a bomb, or someone's leftovers? The Optical Dynamic Detection (ODD) solution provides a new and better way to detect explosives.
DHS investigates the risks of airborne chemicals and biological agents in subways.
A study by Indiana University researchers casts doubt on the idea that improving education and income would reduce support for suicide bombings.
Baylor researcher finds improving Islamic marriage culture could prevent suicide bombings.
Many terrorist organizations, including Hamas, are using their children's websites in order to recruit girls for terrorist activities. This is part of an increasing trend adopted by terrorist organizations and fundamentalist Islamic groups that are using the Internet.
Virginia Tech Research Professor John Harrald testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee that the U.S. is vulnerable to catastrophic events. A shift in preparedness to the public sector is essential, he said.
Jihadist terror organizations have set economic terrorism as their new target, intending to harm and paralyze Western economies, the United Sates in particular, claims Prof. Gabriel Weimann, expert researcher of terrorism over the Internet.
Andrew Macpherson, research assistant professor of justice studies at the University of New Hampshire Justiceworks program and director of the Technical Analysis Group, is available to discuss new warnings about the increased threat of cyber attacks.
Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery will collaborate with Brookhaven National Laboratory on Multidisciplinary Research Project.
Tired of tossing your water, and putting your toiletries in those little airport baggies? Washington feels your pain.
Natural disasters - like toddlers with crayons - leave a mess all over the map, spilling across federal, state, and local lines. To clean up, different agencies and jurisdictions must come together and share what they know.
In the wake of the failed attempt by would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to destroy Northwest flight 253 as it prepared to land in Detroit on Christmas day, airports around the world are considering mandatory installations of full-body (whole body) scanners including backscatter systems.
Question and Answer with Jonathan Bricker, PhD, a psychologist who helps people overcome a wide variety of challenges, including anxiety, fear of flying and unhealthy behaviors. In 1999, he developed the Air Travel Stress Scale, which suggests that air travel stress has unique emotional components.
Most Americans leave homeland security efforts to government officials and emergency responders. Paul Andrews, adjunct professor for Saint Joseph's University’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Institute and a nationally recognized expert in homeland security, has a different view. He suggests individuals must do their own part in protecting our country.
Experts can comment on various topics relating to politics, American presidential history, homeland security & terrorism and international affairs.
"A fleet of fighter planes is not necessary to attack a power station; a keyboard is sufficient. And if you don't have the skills, there are enough mercenary hackers who can do it for you," says Dr. Yaniv Levyatan, a University of Haifa expert on information warfare.
Scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in San Antonio have for the first time developed a highly sensitive means of detecting the seven types of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) simultaneously. The finding may lead to improved techniques for testing water and food supplies should BoNTs be used as a bioterrorism weapon.
President Obama, unlike Bush 43, is not likely to enjoy a surge in public approval after the recent terrorist threat, according to research by political scientists Elizabeth Zechmeister and Jennifer Merolla. Obama doesn’t get the same image boost as Bush did when terrorism occurred on his watch.
Baylor University political scientist and professor Dr. Bradley Thayer is available as an expert to speak about terrorism and national security policy. His research centers on international politics, including international relations theory, grand strategy, nuclear deterrence and nuclear proliferation.
The attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day came at the worst time for President Obama and has reinvigorated debates about U.S. security, says Will Walldorf, assistant professor of political science at Wake Forest University.
As the first State of the Union address approaches, University of Texas at Austin researchers are available to offer expertise on U.S. politics, the Obama administration and terrorism.
A list of faculty experts to serve as sources for reporters covering the upcoming State of the Union Address.
University of South Carolina sociologist Dr. Mathieu Deflem, an international expert on global terrorism and counter-terrorism, has had his book "“The Policing of Terrorism: Organizational and Global Perspectives,” released by Routledge.
New approaches that account for the flexibility of attackers could improve security threat assessments.
James Martin, who specializes in the study of infrastructure for increased resilience to natural or terrorist activities, advocates community-based leadership to minimize disasters. "Government must coordinate efforts but ... we need the transportation, water, power, and other industries to share the leadership."
Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread literally like wildfire — uncontrollably and seemingly without any order. But according to one Ryerson researcher, there is method to the madness. With the right mathematical model, you could spot when and where a story starts, then watch as it skips across the Internet. One day, similar models could even detect and track terrorist cells within OSNs.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a $4 million federal grant to develop new antibiotics to treat anthrax, tularemia and plague.
Wellesley College political scientist Roxanne L. Euben has published a new book designed to expand the understanding of Islamic thought in the Western world. "Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden" is an anthology of key writings from the early 20th century to the present.
When Homeland Security's Tom Chirhart went looking for volunteers to test a new multiband radio that allows first responders to talk to one another across different frequency bands, the line of interested agencies was long and very eager.
Monitoring the daily ship traffic of a busy waterway like the Hudson River isn't an easy task for the Department of Homeland Security. The biggest ships are required to carry an Automatic Identification System that broadcasts information about their identity and location, but boats weighing less than 300 tons are often an invisible security risk.
Samuel Totten, an internationally known genocide scholar and author and editor of numerous books about genocide, is available to comment on the new Obama administration's policy in Sudan.
University of Arkansas psychology professor Jeffrey Lohr and colleague David Tolin have documented the history and criticisms of the ethics policy of the American Psychological Association and recommended remedies to restore ethical standards to the profession.
Dr. Dean Alexander, director of the Homeland Security Research Program and associate professor of homeland security at Western Illinois University, has extensively lectured and published on domestic jihads.
Most recent armed conflicts around the world have been flare-ups of previously settled wars, concludes a new report from University of Maryland researchers. The report also identifies current terrorism as largely "a by-product of the war in Iraq." Using a statistical approach, the report finds significantly increasing instability in regions and nations where dangers were already very high.
A University of Arkansas study on terrorism and water supplies demonstrates that less-educated people – those with a high school diploma or less – are significantly more concerned about terrorist attacks against municipal water supplies than individuals with at least some college credits. The study also revealed that older people are more concerned than young people, women more than men and religious people more than those who consider religion as only “fairly” or “not very” important.
When a terrorist bomb explodes, a tornado rips through a town, a hurricane devastates a region, or wildfires ravage homes and businesses, plastic surgeons are not typically atop the list of emergency responders.
Researchers demonstrate that the combination of certain bacteria and a common purple dye can reveal the presence of toxins in milk in just a few hours.
A chemist at NIST has demonstrated a relatively simple, inexpensive method for detecting and measuring elusive hazards such as concealed explosives and toxins, invisible spoilage in food or pesticides distributed in soil by wind and rain.
NIST researchers have developed a new reference material to use in calibrating and testing trace-explosives detectors like those used at airports.
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified two small protein fragments that could be developed into an anthrax vaccine that may cause fewer side effects than the current vaccine.
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