A respected U.S. scientist researching the evolution of the COVID-19 virus has uncovered an intriguing mystery with potentially troubling implications: Some of the virus’ earliest genetic fingerprints ...

The question of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 continues to occupy scientists, the media, and the public intensely even 5 years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Where the virus came from, when and ...

When Republicans take control of the House in January, they plan to look to investigate matters related to COVID-19, including its origin, and Dr. Anthony Fauci agreed it's worthwhile to uncover what ...

A corollary to the scientific truism that “nature abhors a vacuum” is that nature tends to fill the void with any garbage near at hand. For example, consider the surge of interest in the claim that ...

Revelations that the US Department of Energy and the FBI believe that the COVID-19 pandemic likely started in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, have put the prospect of a lab leak back in the news. And ...

Thus far, researchers have not identified ancestral viruses that could have plausibly given rise to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19—so says a new report from the Scientific Advisory Group ...

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday the organization is still working to determine the origin of the Covid-19 virus and that “all hypotheses” remain on ...

In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligence on the origins of COVID-19 – particularly a ...

The US Department of Energy has updated its previously undecided stance on the origin of the pandemic coronavirus, now saying with "low confidence" that it most likely emerged through a laboratory ...

A confidential document first reported on by The Wall Street Journal revealed two key facts about the U.S. government's efforts to identify the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

For the second day in a row, China on Wednesday dismissed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory. Responding to comments ...

Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them. By Benjamin Mueller Ben Mueller has been covering the ...