Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

This is a summary of: Liu. H. et al. Viral RNA blocks circularization to evade host codon usage control. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09809-y (2025).

The Windows Blue Screen (or Black Screen) of Death is typically a sign that some unrecoverable error or conflict has occurred. Now, cybercriminals are using the dreaded BSOD as a way to trick people ...

Threat actors are exploiting complex routing scenarios and misconfigured spoof protections to send spoofed phishing emails, ...

The Kimwolf botnet, an Android variant of the Aisuru malware, has grown to more than two million hosts, most of them infected ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

A fourth wave of the "GlassWorm" campaign is targeting macOS developers with malicious VSCode/OpenVSX extensions that deliver ...

Florida’s warm climate created perfect conditions for the Burmese python to thrive. Originally native to Southeast Asia, the ...

In the early 1990s, an unknown virus infected the computers at the Polytechnic School of the University of Málaga. It wasn’t malicious, but it was a nuisance because no one knew what to do about the ...

'Tis the season of vigorous handwashing and using copious amounts of hand sanitizer as Americans try to avoid getting sick before the holidays. Health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

Cases of a highly contagious stomach virus are on the rise in Illinois and the Midwest, and health officials are warning people to take extra precautions as numbers could be even higher than reported ...