What is a virus? In a simpler way, a virus is an unwanted programme that is loaded on your computer. Viruses can make multiple copies of themselves, in the process draining the system resources.

As COVID-19 sweeps the world, related viruses quietly circulate among wild animals. A new study shows how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-1, which caused the 2003 SARS ...

Scientists have always known of the impact that viral pathogens have had on Homo sapiens evolution. Remnants of viral DNA can found dispersed throughout the human genome, but until recently ...