We're increasingly aware of how misinformation can influence elections. About 73% of Americans report seeing misleading election news, and about half struggle to discern what is true or false.

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H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

Do you know a “master of metamorphosis”? A scholar, some time ago, thus defined the influenza virus. Because it changes.

McMaster researchers found that bacteriophages treated under specific conditions form flower-like structures that are highly ...

XEC has become the second most prevalent strain in the country, according to data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), representing more than 1 in 10 cases. But ...

The field of virology focuses on viruses' biology and evolution, providing essential knowledge for disease prevention and the ...

A group of McMaster researchers who routinely work with bacteriophages—viruses that eat bacteria ... had joined together into three-dimensional shapes that look like sunflowers, but only ...

In the video, which @bowaledeen posted to Instagram, a woman is seen asking her partner, "What is half of 4 + 4?" The man answers sharply and seemingly confidently, "Four." The woman, on the other ...

Rwanda is still grappling with its first outbreak of Marburg virus. A cousin to the Ebola virus, Marburg is one of the deadliest viruses known to science, with a fatality rate of about 88%.

But were they viruses or bacteria? Scientists don't have a conclusive answer, partly because it's difficult to recreate more ...