Inspired by California blackworms, Harvard’s new swarm robot tangles, moves, and thinks like a living blob, on land and in water.

The slimy, segmented, bottom-dwelling California blackworm is about as unappealing as it gets—but get a few dozen or thousand together, and they form a massive, entangled blob that seems to take on a ...

Four people have died in Florida due to infections from Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium commonly known as "flesh-eating" for ...

The mystery microbe seemingly straddles the line between living and non-living. It’s cellular, and can create its own ...

Pepper, a feline owned by John Lednicky, a virologist at the University of Florida, recently discovered orthoreovirus on a dead rodent he had caught. Orthorevirus is a viral genus that’s known to ...

When a Florida virologist’s cat brought home a dead shrew, no one expected it to lead to the discovery of a previously unknown virus. But that's exactly what happened. The shrew carried a new strain ...

Black cats may be considered bad luck in many Western societies, however, one such sooty feline has brought good fortune to a ...

How to tell if there's spyware or a virus on your computer with seven warning signs your device is infected and what to do ...

Infection by certain wrigglers may reduce inflammation and fight obesity and diabetes. Scientists are working to turn the findings into therapies ...

In early 2004, a handful of employees worldwide received a strange email with an attachment, marking the start of the fastest-growing computer virus in history. Known as MyDoom (or Novarg), this ...

What Is a Computer Virus? A computer virus is a program. Like other programs, it’s defined by what it does, and the big thing a virus does is replicate itself.