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
The World Health Organization group tasked with tracking down the origin of the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is strongly recommending that a deeper investigation be made into the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have been released into the public through a laboratory accident. This follows the group’s assertion, afterread more
There are calls by some health experts to have a subvariant of the highly-transmissible Omicron to be given its own designation as a Greek-lettered variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Responsible for a resurgence in cases in Denmark, the BA.2 subvariant is more transmissible than its already fast-spreading predecessor, while apparentlyread more
The release of the remaining classified government documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been postponed again by the White House, due to pandemic-related delays that slow down the research process being conducted at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the numerous agencies, suchread more