The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

A new study has uncovered dynamics of virus-bacteria interactions in the microgravity environment of the International Space ...

In a new study, we and an international team scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

AI can now create genome viruses in laboratories and redesign toxins to evade controls, raising biosafety alert and rise of ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to be alive. Nestled inside a tiny plankton cell, researchers found a ...

Scientists have discovered something intriguing in a new type of organism that actually eats viruses. The organisms, which are known as virovores, don't just eat viruses accidentally, either. These ...

Plastic pollution does more than litter landscapes and oceans. According to a new perspective article published in ...

The so-called “circle of life” dictates that if a living thing exists, it’s probably food for something else. Viruses, however, have historically managed to escape this unofficial rule. Although ...