From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than the first cellular life. More than 600 ...

As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Flu viruses that sparked the three worst pandemics in the last century circulated in their near-complete forms for years before the catastrophes occurred, researchers in Hong ...

Over the past 41,000 years, viral communities have varied significantly between cold and warm climatic periods, scientists found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Believed to be the first virus released into the wild, the Elk Cloner reflected the camp spirit of the frontier days of computing in the early '80s. It was written by 15-year-old prankster Rich ...

With the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation recently increasing its predicted total for coronavirus deaths in the United States, its researchers are looking to remind the country that the ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Pharmacies in the nation of Georgia have something ours don’t: vials of viruses in neat rows. People swallow or gargle the brews to combat routine bacterial ...

Study provides a portrait of wild-type AAV infection in the liver with an identification of molecular forms, viral genotypes, viral integrations, and helper virus relationship and with AAV insertions ...