A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

Researchers have discovered the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow, using Google's Gemini ...

Drugs made of mRNA have the potential to transform medicine—if only they could get into cells in one piece. Now, University of Connecticut researchers have shown that packaging mRNA like a virus could ...

Operation Dream Job is evolving once again, and now comes through malicious dependencies on bare-bones projects.

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A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opts its host’s systems with the help of ...

This week in the scientific process: researchers reported the first-ever shark sighted in Antarctic waters. Penguins beware!

Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social ...

Viral mimic systems and other tech platforms could enable local testing of vaccine candidates and antiviral therapies. This ...

It turns out that some participants post .blend files, which are used by the popular Blender open-source 3D modeling system.