So far, the most serious accidents have occurred abroad, including the deaths of a Russian lab worker exposed to Ebola and a Chinese lab worker exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as ...

America’s legacy media suffered a credibility crisis by prematurely dismissing the COVID lab leak theory from the onset of the pandemic and a new book puts a spotlight on why so many people wanted to ...

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 ...

Opacity surrounds incidents at scientific facilities, with over 400 cases documented in the last half-century worldwide, including a cloud of bacteria that affected 10,000 people in 2019 ...

University of Texas at Austin officials failed to report 10 laboratory accidents to federal authorities over the past seven years, the Associated Press reported. In five of the incidents, laboratory ...

Re Judith Giordan’s remarks on trusting science in C&EN’s April 1, 2024, issue (page 33): A lot of trust derives from communicating in a manner that renders the subject understandable in the context ...

A science experiment gone wrong has sent two Georgia high school students to the hospital, school officials say. The incident happened on Thursday Dec. 7 at Marietta High School in Marietta, about 20 ...

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MARIETTA, Ga. — Two high school students were sent to the hospital after suffering chemical burns earlier this week, according to officials. According to Marietta City Schools, the incident happened ...

This exclusive article is adapted from former USA TODAY investigative reporter Alison Young’s forthcoming book "Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk," which will be released ...