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 ...

Pepper’s last contribution to science was in May 2021, when he brought home a common cotton mouse carrying a type of ...

A cat named Pepper has once again helped scientists discover a new virus—this time a mysterious orthoreovirus found in a ...

Each option does something slightly different to get rid of a virus on your computer Part of the process of learning how to get rid of a virus on your computer is understanding the three options an ...