AI-native web browsers make it easier to get information and perform tasks online, but they also come with more security ...

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows ...

Following the signing of two landmark executive orders by President Donald Trump on Monday, the Energy Department unveiled a new mission focused on delivering a fault-tolerant quantum computer for ...

This episode is part of “The Young American Scientists,” an editorially independent project that was produced with financial support from Regeneron. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science ...

Many Australians have stopped worrying about respiratory viruses. The pandemic has passed and attention has shifted. COVID no longer dominates the headlines, and influenza is often dismissed as a ...

Scientists investigating how influenza viruses replicate within cells "accidentally" discovered that different flu viruses use distinct strategies to infiltrate cells in the first place. They also ...

Flu season may be mostly behind us, but a nasty, highly contagious stomach bug is rising. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In recent ...

The types of Ebola and hantavirus worrying officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond. By Carl Zimmer This month, a pair of ...

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 ...

There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine or being monitored for symptoms. This includes a group of 18 passengers from the ...

It’s hard to imagine that a snail could kill a person, but a particularly venomous group of marine molluscs called cone snails can. Their stings contain a cocktail of small proteins called conotoxins, ...