Allen Rodrigo University of Auckland For almost 20 years, Allen Rodrigo worked on the molecular evolution of viruses, including HIV and Hepatitis B. His lab was involved in the development of computational methods for analysing the evolutionary history of viruses, including the timing of virus origins. He has been the
The cloud of circumstantial evidence around the “lab-leak” theory refuses to dissipate – and just got darker. From the beginning of the pandemic, there were accusations that the virus causing COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That directly contradicted official claims that the virus emerged
Chynthia Wijaya Noor Gillani The Conversation Before joining The Conversation, Chynthia worked in video production and editing, freelancing for Vice Australia and the Museum of Chinese Australian History. Before joining The Conversation, Noor worked as a regional reporter with Seven West Media and News Corp. Prior to that, she freelanced
Kelli Ballard libertynation.com National Correspondent at LibertyNation.com. Kelli Ballard is an author, editor, and publisher. Her writing interests span many genres including a former crime/government reporter, fiction novelist, and playwright. Originally a Central California girl, Kelli now resides in the Seattle area. Has there ever been a
If you’ve ever experienced or known someone with depression, you’ll be familiar with the endless lying in bed. It’s not laziness or “drama”: it’s just the soul-crushing impossibility of emerging and facing another grind through a grey world. New research suggests that that’s just part
As I wrote recently, Tyrannosaurus Rex was slower and yet way scarier than we might have thought. Now, they just got even scarier. Contrary to the Jurassic Park image of the sprinting, solitary behemoth, new evidence suggests that Tyrannosaurs were likely much slower, but a much more dogged pursuer. Worse,
Nature or nurture? It’s a long-running debate: do our genes matter more than our environment? Is ancestry more important than upbringing? The politically-correct answer, currently, is nurture, all the way. After all, pretending that we’re anything other than a tabula rasa at birth raises some alarming possibilities for
When you think of Tutankhamun, you almost certainly picture his fabulous, solid gold and lapis lazuli death mask. But that mask was but the innermost of layers upon layers of coffins and sarcophagi which housed the pharaoh’s remains. Tutankhamun’s tomb was in fact something like a Russian Matryoshka
Like most boys, I was absolutely fascinated by dinosaurs. But I never really grew out of that fascination. For a long time, in high school, I aspired to be a paleontologist. I went on fossil digs in my school holidays. My prize discovery was the massive femur of a Diprotodon,
Owen Jennings Former National President of Federated Farmers Yesterday Prime Minster Ardern claimed that action on the Climate Commission’s recommendations was “a matter of life and death”. There is zero truth in that statement. It is outrageous and dangerous. All the evidence shows that climate-related deaths – both from heat
Warning Contains distressing images of experiments using human body parts.
Who are the real “Snowflake Generation”? Boomers might not like the answer suggested by a new study. Older folks like to deride “young people these days” as over-sensitive, narcissistic cry-babies, but are they really yelling at their own, wrinkled reflections? The new study suggests: yes. A study has found that
