A distinct coronavirus lineage was found in bats in Hong Kong. HKU5-CoV-2 carries a risk of animal-to-human transmission and binds to humans like the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers published ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... For a contrarian like me, it’s hard not to idolize Li Wenliang. He was a young ophthalmologist, just as I once was. Full of youth, ...

After years of rumours that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in China, the virologist at the centre of the claims has presented data on dozens of new coronaviruses collected ...

Did COVID-19 originate in a lab? To answer this question, let's revisit the early days of the pandemic and examine what some of Anthony Fauci's inner circle said privately about the origins of the ...

Left: Secretary of State Colin Powell knowingly lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003 Right: A screenshot of the September 8, 2002 New ...

The first three people to contract COVID-19 were scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), claims a new report—a finding that could confirm the lab leak theory of COVID-19's origins ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Newly-revealed coronavirus data has reignited a debate over ...

In the three years or so since Covid-19 appeared, it has become increasingly clear, despite the protestations of virologists who do this kind of work, that the causative virus was probably the result ...

Vanity Fair's Katherine Eban details the evolution of the EcoHealth Alliance, the American non-profit with extensive ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology that has fueled fires favoring a lab-leak ...

A HarperCollins book out later this month from an award-winning Australian journalist claims the US funded the Wuhan, China lab suspected of being the source of the Covid-19 pandemic. The lab was ...

Shi Zhengli told Chinese state media that the virus will continue to mutate. The delta variant was first discovered in India and is now the dominant strain of COVID-19. Scientists are also monitoring ...

In 2013, the American virologist Ralph Baric approached Zhengli Shi at a meeting. Baric was a top expert in coronaviruses, with hundreds of papers to his credit, and Shi, along with her team at the ...