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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists identify key tipping point when bird flu could cause a pandemic in humans - Simulation finds quarantining is most effective in controlling human spread as long as it is done when number of ...

The shocking initiative comes as part of an effort to demonstrate how ill-prepared the world is to meet the challenges posed by deadly diseases 100 years on from the Spanish flu pandemic. The model ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...