New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

What is the truth about viruses? They evolve, grow, and can be killed by our immune system, but are they actually alive?

They are not quite alive, yet not convincingly dead, and they may soon be prescribed alongside, or even instead of, the pills in your medicine cabinet. These strange entities, from rod-shaped genetic ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

Maybe the first life on Earth was part of an 'RNA world.' Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library via Getty Images How life on Earth started has puzzled scientists for a long time. And it still does.

Scientists have discovered over 600 different species of bacteria-hunting viruses living in our common bathroom items, though the microbes pose no harm to people. Reading time 3 minutes Some of the ...

How did viruses evolve? Are they a streamlined form of something that existed long ago, or an ultimate culmination of smaller genetic elements joined together? Aa Aa Aa The evolutionary history of ...