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A ferret.

The grave risk of lab-created potentially pandemic pathogens

By Lynn C. Klotz | Biosecurity

A bus carrying a team of experts from the World Health Organization departs an airport in Wuhan on Jan. 14, 2021, after arriving in the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. That investigation is widely seen as having been obstructed by Chinese authorities. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

How COVID-19’s origins were obscured, by the East and the West

By Nicholas Wade | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

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

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

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

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WHO’s “exciting adventure” to find the origins of COVID-19 runs into trouble

By Thomas Gaulkin, Matt Field | Biosecurity

Bats.

From Chicago to Uganda, scientists track the wildlife diseases that could infect humans—or spark the next pandemic

By Carlyn Kranking | Disruptive Technologies

image of Trump overlaid with coronavirus photo

A contact-tracing nightmare: When did the president catch the coronavirus, and who might he have given it to?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Special Topics

What can a pandemic teach us about nuclear threats?

By Ted Lieu | Biosecurity, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Uncategorized

The A1 Verse: Tragedy from Texas to Transylvania

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity

COVID closeup, color enhanced

What it means when COVID-19 antibodies fade

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Special Topics

The A1 Verse: the pandemic that ate the economy

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity

empty hospital bed

Another victim of the coronavirus pandemic: Cancer research

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Analysis

David Quammen portrait

How it feels to predict a pandemic: Interview with David Quammen, author of Spillover

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Special Topics