The COVID Lab-Leak Hypothesis: What Scientists Do and Do Not know

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June 10, 2021

Public Health The COVID Lab-Leak Hypothesis: What Scientists Do and Do Not know An examination of the arguments that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China, and the science behind them By Amy Maxmen,Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Automotive Electric Vehicle Orders Are Zooming at Ford Consumers want the racy Mustang Mach-E coupe and the powerful F-150 Lightning pickup truck By Arianna Skibell,E&E News

Behavior & Society Trailblazing Transgender Doctor Saved Countless Lives After transitioning in 1917, Alan L. Hart helped alter medical history By Leo DeLuca

Public Health Why India's Second COVID Surge Is So Much Worse Than the First Large gatherings and much more lenient restrictions have allowed the virus to spread at devastating levels By Shekhar Chandra

Public Health Finding Conclusive Animal Origins Of The Coronavirus Will Take Time Viruses that "spill over" to people do not stick around in animals, so finding true sources takes years of careful work, an expert says By Christine K. Johnson

Conservation These Alternative Economies Are Inspirations for a Sustainable World Making peace with the biosphere will require building communities and relationships that are focused on protecting life—human and nonhuman By Ashish Kothari

Public Health A 'Universal' Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent the Next Pandemic A pan-coronavirus vaccine could be "one vaccine to rule them all," and so far it has shown strong results in mice, hamsters, monkeys, horses and even sharks. By Emily Mullin | 05:06

Public Health Covid, Quickly: A Pop-Up Podcast Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between By Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Jeffery DelViscio

Biology The First 'Google Translate' for Elephants Debuts An online animal catalogue lets you decode communications and other behaviors for everyone's favorite pachyderm By Rachel Nuwer

Space Ganymede Looks Glorious in New Images from NASA's Juno Mission The spacecraft captured the first close-up views of the solar system's largest moon in more than 20 years By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Conservation Saved from Shuckers, Oysters Fight Rising Seas New York City is building protective reefs with farmed oysters restaurants do not want By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Space Jeff Bezos Will Go to Space on Blue Origin's First Crewed Flight The multibillionaire—along with his brother and at least one other passenger—could reach suborbital heights as soon as July 20 By Meghan Bartels,SPACE.com

FROM THE STORE How to Do Anything Better When we think about the things we do every day—driving, working, parenting—we realize that even with tasks we are generally good at, there is always room for improvement. As always, science is on the case. This eBook contains a collection of columns written by Sunny Sea Gold, a health and psychology journalist whose work has appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine and Parents. These selections, published by Scientific American between 2009 – 2017, offer practical tips for acing life from nailing that job interview to giving the perfect gift.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Divisive COVID 'Lab Leak' Debate Prompts Dire Warnings from Researchers Allegations that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab make it harder for nations to collaborate on ending the pandemic—and fuel online bullying—some scientists say By Amy Maxmen,Nature magazine | May 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Over the last number of days, we have seen more and more and more discourse in the media, with terribly little actual news, or evidence, or new material. This is disturbing." Mike Ryan, director of health emergencies at the World Health Organization

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