A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Viruses have been a near-constant subject of headline news in recent years, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic began. But of course, the pathogens' influence stretches back to the start of human ...

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

Seen under a microscope, phages look like lunar landers. The viruses store their DNA in a bulbous head section and use protruding legs to recognize their target bacteria. Having landed on a bacterial ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Viruses are apparently no exception to the dog-eat-dog world that is nature. In a recent study, scientists have found evidence that some microscopic organisms actively feed on viruses. Though this may ...

A team of scientists studying virus-host interactions of a globally abundant, armor-plated marine algae, Emiliania huxleyi, has found that the circular, chalk plates the algae produce can act as ...

Scientists from the University of Utah and University of Washington have developed blueprints that instruct human cells to assemble a virus-like delivery system that can transport custom cargo from ...

Ever wondered what a virus looks like up close? One post circulating on social media claims it has just the picture. "Real Image of a T4 bacteriophage (a virus) via electron microscope," reads a ...

A group of McMaster researchers who routinely work with bacteriophages—viruses that eat bacteria—had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise while preparing slides to view under a powerful ...

Long-term care providers have always had to worry about microscopic viruses that might attack residents and staff. But it appears that computer viruses could turn out to be a powerfully significant ...

In "Bezos decides his Washington Post should embrace freedom" (Web, Feb. 28), the Washington Times editorial board writes, "Never mind that it was obvious from the earliest days of the panic that a ...