The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help ...

Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.

However, world number two McIlroy struggled to make the cut, with double bogeys at the first and third holes. He sank a ...

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle discusses a "28 Years Later" trilogy, using Cillian Murphy as leverage, and why he ...

Researchers have identified 230 novel giant viruses present in our waterways and oceans using an innovative computing method.

If there’s one thing worse than a virus, you’ve got to imagine it’s a massive version of the same thing. So it may not sound ...

More than 300 acres of historic farmland in the South Downs National Park are to be restored to nature in one of the UK’s largest ever Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) projects.

The newly discovered iron ore reserves are estimated to contain 60 billion tons of high-grade material. An average market ...

Princeton, Illinois is that fantasy come to life – a place where the downtown storefronts look like they’re auditioning for a Norman Rockwell painting and the pace is so relaxed you might check your ...

A computer virus spread via e-mail has been described by security experts as the "largest virus outbreak in months". The malicious worm, called Mydoom or Novarg, has clogged networks and may allow ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

Harnessing the abundance of data that came from this effort, on Thursday (June 5), the team released the largest contiguous image ever captured by the JWST, along with a free, interactive catalog ...