US health experts hosted a tabletop exercise which simulated a fictional coronavirus pandemic to see how authorities could coordinate a response to such an event - three months before the deadly ...

Social inequality, rampant injustice, and podcasts can only mean one thing: humanity is due for a major reset. Being the evil genius that you are, you’ve decided to eradicate humankind by concocting a ...

LONDON, April 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Startup Hadean have partnered with the Francis Crick Institute to accelerate the development of a single, massive scale simulation of how viruses, like COVID-19 ...

A mobile game based around the spreading of a plague has launched a new version which sees players take control of pandemic response and cure development. Plague Inc, which has more than 160 million ...

Learn about a new simulation that shows human-to-human transmission of H5N1 will become uncontainable if we miss the narrow window.

Scientists at the University of Exeter have created an online simulation which will help people understand how individual actions impact the spread of diseases. Simuland: Beat the Epidemic is a ...

FOR years, scientists have warned that bird flu could one day spill over from birds to humans, triggering a global health crisis. Now, a grim study shows it could take just two days for avian ...

The experiment was designed to investigate how a virus’ protein shell — a capsid — changes as it prepares to inject its genetic material into a cell. These altered virus particles are known as ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Scientists at the University of Exeter have created an online simulation which will help people understand how individual actions impact the spread of diseases. Simuland: Beat the Epidemic is a ...