An international team of researchers has identified genetic traits that appear to have enabled individuals to survive the Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic that swept across northern Africa and Eurasia in the mid-fourteenth century. Although these genetic variations were beneficial in surviving a plague that killed nearly half ofread more
On October 17 the UK’s the Daily Mail published an alarming article outlining a study conducted at Boston University involving a gain-of-function experiment on the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 that resulted in a pathogen so deadly that it boasted an “80% kill rate in mice” and “could spark a lab-generated pandemic.” Theread more
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[Update: Clarified that the fossils of more than one individual discovered at the site; the previous description implied that there was only one individual recovered.] Archaeologists have unearthed evidence that a group of “little people” that were previously featured only in indigenous Taiwanese legend really did exist, meaning that ifread more