“Lab leak,” reads the banner on the website, “the true origins of COVID-19.” President Donald Trump has long touted the theory that the coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab.

Retrotransposons, transposable elements related to animal retroviruses, are found in all eukaryotes investigated and make up the majority of many plant genomes1,2,3,4,5. Their ubiquity points to ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.