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COVID-19 origins: Is it from bats?

Chinese experts reiterated the need for more studies of wild animals, including various species of bats, pangolins, minks, and cats, to ascertain the origin of SARS-CoV

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Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses will join us at TC Sessions: SaaS

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News Analysis: Why is coronavirus origin tracing a challenging task for scientists?

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, the puzzle of where the virus originated is attracting global attention from science community. To identify the origin of an unknown virus,

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Spotlight: Officials, academics worldwide highlight lack of evidence regarding origin of COVID-19

Officials and scholars around the world have recently stressed there is no scientific evidence to support Washington's repeated allegations that the novel coronavirus

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Novel coronavirus spreads quickly across globe since late 2019: study

A medical worker shows a testing swab at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing center in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on April 23, 2020. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)By screening the genomes of over 7,500 viruses

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Study shows extensive global transmission of novel coronavirus from early on in epidemic

Researchers have discovered that a large proportion of the global genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 is found in all hardest-hit countries, suggesting extensive global transmission from early on in

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Extra Crunch Live: Join Mark Cuban for our live chat today at 11 am ET/8 am PT

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UN chief highlights exacerbating climate crisis, citing huge jump in ocean heat

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday highlighted the exacerbating climate crisis during his New Year press conference, citing recent studies including one that reveals a huge jump in oce