The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses.

TikTok, X, and Instagram are flooded with videos about a mysterious “2025 throat virus” that’s making everyone sick. The illness causes a host of debilitating symptoms including runny nose, congestion ...

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 ...

In this video, we create the operator Ela from Rainbow Six: Quarantine, depicting her in a diorama as she combats alien-virus-slime using polymer clay. Trump's removal of Maduro prompts questions from ...

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 ...

A strange phenomenon has captured attention in northern Colorado: rabbits with horn-like growths, dubbed "tentacle rabbits." According to officials from Colorado Parks and Wildlife, these growths are ...

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 ...

There’s something funny going on with bunnies in the state of Colorado, as black tentacles appear to be growing out of the heads of cottontail rabbits. This very real rabbit disease is caused by the ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said the black growths on the rabbits are from a viral infection caused by the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus Experts note that the growths often don't harm the ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have developed a machine learning model that could help prevent pandemics by identifying animal species likely to harbor viruses capable of ...