The fifth anniversary of COVID-19 is approaching. With a possible bird flu pandemic looming and a mysterious deadly outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we should quickly learn the ...

This week C&EN presents the Talented 12 class of 2025: a dozen early-career researchers who are using chemistry to do world-changing work. When the Talented 12 agree to be profiled, we give them a ...

Lesson 5: Missteps fueled distrust in science, medicine The biggest fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, in Bagdasarian's view, is the pervasive distrust that has grown like a cancer through American ...

"China virus," the Chinese virus—at the start of the 2020 pandemic, this epithet was often encountered in the media. The use of geographically based labels to define the disease (COVID-19) and the ...

A Cambridge laboratory has run the first human trial of a vaccine whose active ingredient was designed entirely by artificial ...

But there’s at least one type of viral spread that will be harder to stop, even when Covid-19 does settle into seasonal respiratory virus status. That elusive foe is misinformation, and it’s likely to ...

It is now five years since clinicians in Wuhan, China, first encountered covid-19 cases in December 2019. Hindsight makes it even clearer how the battle against the disease wasn’t just a fight against ...

Infectious disease outbreaks have a bad habit of piling on at the worst possible times. The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War ...

A new study in the Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) highlights the need to avoid geographically-based naming right from the outset of a pandemic “China virus”, the Chinese virus — at the start ...