The Wall Street Journal reports that the Energy Department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak. The conclusion is reportedly based on a classified ...

Hundreds of deadly virus samples are missing from a laboratory in Australia, the Queensland government announced on Monday. The government has instructed Queensland Health — Australia’s public health ...

Scientists and spy agencies have tried for years to determine where the coronavirus originated. Conclusive evidence is hard to come by, and the nation’s intelligence officials are split. By Sheryl Gay ...

The Peter Kim Lab was recently awarded $18 million by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness to create a vaccine to protect ...

There have been more than seven million confirmed Covid-19-linked deaths since the virus first emerged in late 2019. But the origin of the virus that caused them, Sars-CoV-2, is still shrouded in ...

A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate. By Julian E. Barnes ...

The Energy Department said it reached the conclusion with "low confidence." The news that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic "most likely" was ...

A Sept. 2 Instagram post (direct link, archive lin k) shows a screenshot of a post on X, formerly Twitter, which makes a claim about COVID-19 and the virus that causes it. "There is no new variant of ...

WASHINGTON -- Dr. Anthony Fauci is refuting an unsubstantiated theory linking the origin of the novel coronavirus outbreak to a possible accident at a Chinese virology laboratory. Subsequently asked ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is widespread among wildlife species, according to new research. The virus was detected in six common backyard species, and antibodies indicating prior ...

Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...