University of Texas at Austin officials failed to report 10 laboratory accidents to federal authorities over the past seven years, the Associated Press reported. In five of the incidents, laboratory ...

Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...

America’s legacy media suffered a credibility crisis by prematurely dismissing the COVID lab leak theory from the onset of the pandemic and a new book puts a spotlight on why so many people wanted to ...

(Photo illustration by Max-o-matic for The Washington Post; photos by Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images and Shepherd Zhou/FeatureChina/AP Images) In the summer of 2019, a mysterious accident occurred ...

* Bird flu and Ebola virus accidents raise biosecurity fears * European states urged to improve lab accident disclosure * Northern Europe reports most lab-acquired infections By Laura MacInnis and ...

A 15-year-old student and teacher sustained burns when a fire erupted during a chemistry experiment at Brookline High School’s summer program on July 3. The incident highlights the need for laboratory ...

In December 2014, two monkeys in outdoor cages at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, about 40 miles north of New Orleans, became ill with Burkholderia pseudomallei, a deadly bacterium in the ...

It started with an accident that should never have happened. While a PhD student in 2013, Beau Wangtrakuldee was working in a lab when her ill-fitting lab coat got caught, causing a vessel to tip over ...

Space is hard, as the saying goes. Since its very first rocket launch from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, small rocket company Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) has attempted 40 separate orbital rocket ...

China has poured billions of dollars into lab construction and genetic engineering in its bid to become a science superpower, but safety practices have failed to keep up, investigations and reports of ...