The strain of hantavirus that has killed three people and sickened five others on a cruise ship is the Andes strain, which is ...

The feat — reported on the preprint server bioRxiv this month 1 — could boost efforts to re-engineer microbial life by moving entire genomes into bacteria to imbue them with useful properties, such as ...

A newly discovered species of spider has been found working pretty hard to convince prospective prey in the Amazon that it’s already safely dead. The result is a creature that looks a lot like the ...

A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself. By Alexa Robles-Gil Alexander Bentley, a herpetologist, often leads ...

The death of Iran’s top national security official has ignited concern about the country’s future. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has covered Iran for more than three decades, living and traveling ...

Back in 2023, Netflix revealed plans to invest a mammoth $2.5 billion in Korean content over the next four years. As a result, the company has been releasing a steady stream of brilliant K-dramas in ...

Update: Article updated with comments from security researchers who believe this should not be considered a vulnerability. Update 2: CERT has retracted its bulletin and MITRE has rejected the CVE on ...

What's a zombie vacancy? It's one in which the homeowner abandons the property before a foreclosure is finalized. New Hampshire also ranked 41st in foreclosure rate. This story was originally produced ...

They’re called “zombie mortgages” — debts that homeowners thought were forgiven long ago, only to learn that they still exist and could cost them their homes. Economics correspondent Paul Solman and ...

We like to think that monsters are timeless. Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy—we know what they look like, how they behave, and what motivates them. But the historian knows better. Monsters are ...