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6,251 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    CDC tracking 279 U.S. pregnant women with possible Zika infections

    The number of U.S. pregnant women with evidence of Zika infection has climbed to nearly 300, and includes both women with and without symptoms.

    By Meghan Rosen
  2. Health & Medicine

    Virus closely related to hepatitis A discovered in seals

    Scientists have discovered a relative of the hepatitis A virus in seals.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  3. Health & Medicine

    Vaccines could counter addictive opioids

    Scientists turn to vaccines to curb the growing opioid epidemic.

    By Susan Gaidos
  4. Animals

    Invading Argentine ant hordes carry a virus that attacks bees

    Invasive Argentine ants may be reservoirs for a virus menacing honeybees — and for previously unknown virus.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Animals

    Nature has a dog problem

    Free-roaming dogs spread disease, kill wildlife by the thousands and have even caused extinctions. But their full effect on the environment has been little studied.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  6. Astronomy

    Proxima b deserves buzz, even if some didn’t notice

    Editor in chief Eva Emerson discusses Earth's newest potentially habitable neighbor.

    By Eva Emerson
  7. Health & Medicine

    First known case of sexually transmitted Ebola reported

    A Liberian woman contracted Ebola in March by having sex with a survivor of the viral disease, researchers report.

    By Lila Guterman
  8. Life

    Experimental MERS vaccine battles virus in mice and monkeys

    Select viral proteins and DNA can combat the MERS virus in mice and monkeys.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  9. Health & Medicine

    Efforts to control mosquitoes take on new urgency

    The major mosquito that is spreading Zika virus has quirks that make it one of the toughest to fight.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Animals

    Cause of mass starfish die-offs is still a mystery

    Sea stars off the U.S. west coast started dying off en masse in 2013. Scientists are still struggling to figure out the cause.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  11. Health & Medicine

    Zika, psychobiotics and more in reader feedback

    Readers respond to the April 2, 2016, issue of Science News with thoughts on Zika virus, planetary science, microbes in mental health and more.

    By Science News Staff
  12. Neuroscience

    Lost memories retrieved for mice with signs of Alzheimer’s

    Using light, scientists coaxed a forgotten memory from the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s-like symptoms.

    By Laura Sanders