New research reveals how ocean viruses burst algae cells, fueling a subsurface oxygen band through rapid microbial recycling.

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

Officials of Ukraine's Defense Forces were targeted in a charity-themed campaign between October and December 2025 that ...

The phishing campaign shows how attackers continue to weaponize legitimate cloud services and open source tools to evade ...

Terry Gilliam's 1995 post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller has kept audiences confused since its release, but the key lies in the ...

Terry Gilliam gave science fiction fans one of the greatest movies of the genre in 1995's 12 Monkeys, and its ending is perfect.

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness. Influenza has to latch onto a receptor on the surface of a human cell so it can ...

Gold nanoparticles are only effective in strengthening optical signals when the nanoparticles are arranged on a surface and spaced at exact distances. Until now, creating those patterns required harsh ...

Scientists have developed what they call a “virus cocktail” to fight superbugs in a major advance for infectious disease treatment. Researchers from Monash University and The Alfred, in Melbourne, ...

AI can now invent working biological viruses. In real world experiments, a team of Stanford researchers demonstrated that a virus with AI-written DNA could target and kill specific bacteria, they ...

Cases of cottontail rabbit papillomavirus are causing alarming changes in Colorado's rabbits Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also ...