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Atomic bomb survivors—A model for us in COVID-19 era

By Robert Jay Lifton | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Atomic Bomb Dome in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Credit: Michael Helmer. Public domain image accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

In an era of climate change and COVID, Hiroshima reminds us of another existential threat.

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

A deer.

White-tailed deer are getting coronavirus infections: How big of a problem is that?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao LIjian.

After the lab-leak theory, US-Chinese relations head downhill

By Yanzhong Huang | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

A restaurant.

Hot vax summer? Pfizer’s mood-killing, premature booster announcement

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Watch now—The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

By Halley Posner | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

A biosafety level 4 lab.

How to make biomedical research (and biosafety labs) less dangerous and more ethical, post-COVID-19

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity

The layered, Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation

By Leticia Bode, Emily Vraga | Disruptive Technologies

Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?

By Kamya Yadav, Ulaş Erdoğdu, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro, Alicia Wanless | Disruptive Technologies

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive by car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on February 3. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

By Nicholas Wade | Biosecurity, Investigative Reporting

The A1 Verse: On the plains of hesitation

By Thomas Gaulkin | Special Topics

CDC director Robert Redfield CNN coronavirus interview Sanjay Gupta

Did former CDC director offer a ham sandwich theory of COVID-19? Maybe. Maybe not.

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity