A months-long investigation into a rural California warehouse uncovered an illegal laboratory that was filled with infectious agents, medical waste and hundreds of mice bioengineered “to catch and carry the…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. It was a slow Saturday night, and an even slower news day, so I thought I’d write up something quick and easy. Naturally, I thought…
Lured by the promise of jobs, legal assistance and a more welcoming environment, hundreds of asylum seekers have boarded buses headed north to Albany, in search of a life better…
The dual actor and writer strike, which advocates for better wages, residuals and AI regulations, has brought the film-making industry in Los Angeles to a standstill. The owner of a…
Did Covid jump from an animal to a person at a food market in Wuhan, China — or leak from a research lab there? That question remains the pandemic’s central…
On Jan. 11, 2020, in Shanghai, just 11 days after first reports of the outbreak in Wuhan circulated globally, a team of scientists led by Yong-Zhen Zhang of Fudan University…
By KLG, who has held research and academic positions in three US medical schools since 1995 and is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean. He has performed and directed…
By Clayton Dalton, a writer in New Mexico, where he works as an emergency physician. Originally published at Undark. When President Biden said last fall that “the pandemic is over,”…
The United States has reached a milestone in the long struggle against Covid: The total number of Americans dying each day — from any cause — is no longer historically…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Science is popping! Nature’s editors[1] and reviewers must have had quite at time doing all these papers more or less at once. And it’s certainly…