Alina Chan isn't saying the coronavirus definitely leaked from a lab in China. What she is saying is what more scientists have grown comfortable discussing publicly: There's no clear evidence either ...

A new report suggesting that the coronavirus may have originated in raccoon dogs has energized scientists who have long argued that the pandemic began at a wildlife market in Wuhan, where the pathogen ...

When it comes to the pandemic, pseudoscience has outweighed real science at almost every turn. One of the best examples of that is the unsupported assertion that the virus causing COVID-19 escaped ...

Scientist Peter Daszak, whose nonprofit funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology for years, claimed in a new interview there is no evidence for the COVID-19 lab-leak theory, ...

Two leaks from Chinese labs in fall 2019 are the most likely sources of the coronavirus’ spread among humans, a Senate report concluded after an 18-month investigation into how the COVID-19 pandemic ...

A well-respected science writer has published a thoughtful and convincing piece this week that helps confirm what most people with common sense have long believed: COVID-19 wasn’t just randomly ...

The D.C. agency tasked with analyzing crime scene evidence now faces a daunting backlog of cases after having its accreditation to perform some forensic casework restored late last year. Meanwhile, ...

Expanding efforts to uncover testing mistakes at Nassau County's closed police crime lab, the medical examiner's office will review 105 cases involving firearms, questionable documents and bits of ...

New evidence problems have surfaced at the Harris County Courthouse after questions were raised about yet another crime lab analyst, the latest in a string of evidence snafus that have put more than 1 ...

The Houston Police Department crime lab, in case after case, used up more physical evidence than experts say was necessary to conduct DNA tests, saving nothing for future tests that could exonerate or ...