Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion.

A 25-year-old local scientist captured rare footage showing how one of the world’s deadliest viruses could jump from bats to ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility ...

Space 'Impossible' particle that hit Earth may have been dark matter We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously high-energy ...

Local health agencies have already found virus-positive mosquitoes in Sacramento, Kern, Tulare, and Santa Clara counties, according to the California West Nile Virus program.

Mosquitos in McHenry and DuPage counties have tested positive for West Nile virus, public health officials announced. A mosquito pool collected from Lake in the Hills on June 2 tested positive for ...

For more information on West Nile virus, to report a standing water source where mosquitos could breed, report a dead bird, or to request a mosquito inspection, visit westnile.ca.gov or call 800 ...

Classical and quantum mechanics don’t really get along as the science of the subatomic can get, well, weird. Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle ...

Lithgow’s team found out that infected bacteria typically carried about 30 copies of the viral DNA. “That’s quite a load,” said Lithgow. So, he realized that the virus must confer some competitive ...

The deadly Ebola virus normally spreads among animals but occasionally spills over to humans, to dire effect. To understand how such diseases make that jump, scientists must find the animal host.