A toxic red tide (Karenia brevis) bloom can make parts of the Gulf deadly to fish and shorebirds as well as marine mammals and sea turtles.

These changes in its genome favor the virus's ability to spread and adapt to mammals, such as cows. In March 2024, an outbreak of avian flu was first detected in dairy cows, specifically on farms in ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, ...

The viruses had their DNA written by an AI model and are already wreaking havoc on bacteria in the real world.

Physician Brendan Phibbs, who wrote “The Other Side of Time: A Combat Surgeon in World War II,” said, “It is a merciful God that doesn’t let us see the future.” But we all have dreams for that future, ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the latest science news. First, a public ...

A 5-week-old baby in Boston is fighting for her life after a tick bite. The baby, Lily Sisco, was bitten while on a walk with her family on Martha’s Vineyard, her mother, Tiffany Sisco, told local ...

Chikungunya is a disease caused by a virus carrying the same name. It was first discovered in 1952 in Tanzania, but cases and outbreaks have since been reported in more than 100 countries, according ...

An outbreak of the chikungunya virus in southern China has prompted a strong government response as cases climb into the thousands. The disease, which is spread by mosquitoes, is most prevalent in the ...

Health officials in Massachusetts are investigating. A Massachusetts mom says her infant daughter may be the patient that state health officials recently said is under investigation for contracting a ...