Scientists are calling for a better biosecurity system to govern lab experiments involving potentially dangerous viruses.
Why it matters: COVID-19 has clearly demonstrated the tremendous human and economic damage even a relatively mild but new virus can wreak. With researchers increasingly able to create far more lethal pathogens in a lab using new gene engineering tools, science needs to rethink oversight for such experiments.
Russia has staged a test of an anti-satellite weapons system that could take out spacecraft in low Earth orbit, according to a statement from U.S. Space Command today.
Why it matters: The move further escalates tensions between the U.S. and Russia when it comes to military uses of outer space.
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