A team of scientists from two universities in China have synthesized a material harder than diamond in the laboratory. When ...

Chinese scientists have created a ‘super diamond’ 40% harder and far more durable than natural ones. Experts say the creation ...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the ...

Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Material Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China ...

In 2023, a classified report from the Department of Energy reportedly concluded with low confidence the virus originated from a lab. That same year, the FBI also said a lab leak was more plausible ...

risky experiments and possibilities of lab leakage. Yet they drafted papers for journals dismissing its plausibility, some even praising the Beijing dictatorship that covered up the outbreak ...

Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Two years ago a report by the Energy Department concluded a lab leak was the most likely origin, though that report also expressed low confidence in the finding. The same year then-FBI director ...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images But the idea that the virus might have originated in a lab never went away. A report made by the U.S. Department of Energy two years ago, which was not publicly released ...

The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to have leaked from a Chinese lab than to have come from animals.

Some official investigations, however, have raised the the question of whether the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan. Two years ago a report by the US Department of Energy concluded a lab leak was ...

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s ...