Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health ...

Five years on from the first UK lockdown, the origin of the virus is still hotly contested. Dr Alina Chan was the scientist who was labelled a conspiracist when she went against the official view it ...

China denies German media reports of an assessment carried out by spying agency BND in 2020 supporting the theory.

Germany's spy agency thinks an accident in a Chinese lab likely led to the COVID-19 pandemic, media say. Evidence it collected allegedly indicates negligence at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

A deadly cloud drifted through the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk in 1979, carrying invisible spores that caused a horrifying outbreak. What really happened in this Cold War bio-weapon disaster? Trump ...

Their hugely influential research rejected the idea of a lab accident but behind closed doors one of the authors, Kristian Andersen, said it was “so friggin’ likely”. Email messages ...

The judge vacated the FDA’s final rule, which was strongly opposed by the laboratory industry, and remanded the matter to HHS ...

According to media reports, the German foreign intelligence service BND assumed with high probability that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in China during the coronavirus pandemic.

tilted it toward the lab-accident theory. The FBI also has concluded, with "moderate confidence," that a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology likely started the pandemic. But four other ...

"But could it have been a laboratory accident involving programmes they were running with reckless abandon? Absolutely." While investigating the origins, Mr Asher was told it was like "opening ...

It started with an accident that should never have happened. While a PhD student in 2013, Beau Wangtrakuldee was working in a lab when her ill-fitting lab coat got caught, causing a vessel to tip over ...

When you hear hoofbeats, do you think zebras or horses? Mary Beth Mulcahy of ACS Chemical Health & Safety and Sandia National Laboratories has spent her career looking at the chemical safety ...