One of the 27 Covid lab leak deniers who signed a letter denouncing the theory that the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan has now called for a 'thorough investigation' into Covid's origins, MailOnline can reveal. Read more..

As of now, none of us know whether the SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 virus was accidentally leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China or jumped on to humans “zoonotically” from some animal. But the hypothesis that it did escape a lab, which was earlier confined to the margins of opinion, has now gone mainstream. Read more..

The core of the Sun burns at 15 million degrees Celsius by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium, but now scientists have designed an 'Artificial Sun' on Earth that has sustained a temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion reactor designed by China burns at eight times the ...

The spike (S) glycoprotein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that emerged in 2019 contained a suboptimal furin cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction with the sequence 681PRRAR/S686. This cleavage site is required for efficient airway replication, transmission, and pathogenicity of the virus. The B.1.617 lineage has recently emerged in India, coinciding with substantial disease burden across the ...

Department of Science and Technology (DST) Secretary Ashutosh Sharma on Tuesday stressed the need for India to harness the potential of quantum technology and its applications to keep the country in league with the ones it competes and also cooperates with. Read more..