COVID-19

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Coronavirus: Accelerating the rise of imitation meat?

By Matt Simon | Analysis, Climate Change

Viral apocalypse

Apocalypse never: what coronavirus teaches us about doomsday denial

By Jamais Cascio | Biosecurity, Science Denial

Maryland national guard stockpile

How to reduce both nuclear and pandemic threats after COVID-19

By James E. Doyle | Biosecurity, Nuclear Weapons

World War II ad for penicillin

What the development of penicillin tells us about developing a coronavirus vaccine

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

closeup of coronavirus through microscope

Let evidence, not talk radio, determine whether the outbreak started in a lab

By Ali Nouri | Biosecurity, Opinion

coronavirus as seen through scanning electron microscope

The coronavirus pandemic: A people’s first draft of history

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

Demand for coal in largest decline since end of World War II

By Jillian Ambrose | Climate Change

Coronavirus: Letting bad science slip through the cracks?

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Analysis, Biosecurity

Julian Perry Robinson

Julian Perry Robinson, top chemical and biological arms control expert, dies of coronavirus

By Nicholas A. Sims | Biosecurity

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Keeping climate research going, despite coronavirus

By Maddie Stone | Biosecurity, Climate Change

The author during his time as a firefighter

Climate change and the coronavirus are upending the way we fight wildfires

By Don Whittemore | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Opinion

Declaring victory too soon: Lessons from Europe’s different responses to coronavirus

By Eileen Choffnes | Analysis, Biosecurity