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As Donald Trump held a meeting in the Oval Office to announce a Pfizer deal, his health secretary sneezed loudly.

RFK Jr. Sneezes Loudly While Trump Is Speaking

The viruses had their DNA written by an AI model and are already wreaking havoc on bacteria in the real world.

Scientists Printed Viruses Designed by AI and They’re Successfully Reproducing

By Frank Landymore

Samples taken from China's Tiangong space station contained a new, mysterious microbe that doesn't exist on Earth, researchers say.

Mysterious Bacteria Not Found on Earth Are Growing on China’s Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of new scientific papers flagged by Ars Technica has revealed what COVID-19 vaccinations actually do to children and teens.

Now That Trump Has Banished the Woke From Science, This Truth-Telling New Scientific Paper Reveals What COVID Vaccines Actually Do to Children

By Victor Tangermann

Bravo star Brandi Glanville claims that she has a parasite living in her face that has caused her massive physical pain and embarrassment.

Real Housewife Details Battle With Parasite Living Inside Her Face

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new research consortium has found not only that brain fungi or bacteria cause some dementia cases, but also that it can be reversed.

Some Cases of Dementia Can Be Cured, Researchers Say, Because They’re Caused by Fungus and Bacteria in Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Upon learning she had a breast cancer tumor, a Croatian virologist decided to grow her own viruses to fight the disease — and it worked.

Scientist Injects Her Own Cancerous Tumor With Viruses She Grew in Lab

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists found more than 600 distinct viruses after swabbing toothbrushes and shower heads — but apparently, they're the good kind.

Scientists Took Swabs of Toothbrushes and Were Shocked by the Hundreds of Viruses They Found

By Noor Al-Sibai

The scientists edited to the bacteria to prove which enzyme it used to degrade PET plastics into bioavailable carbon.

Scientists Gene Hack Bacteria That Breaks Down Plastic Waste

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found remnants of more than 1,700 viruses, most of which had never been seen before, from an ancient Tibetan glacier.

Scientists Discover Ancient Viruses Frozen in Glacier

By Noor Al-Sibai

Anthony Fauci, who became synonymous with the American government's response to the COVID pandemic, was struck with the rare West Nile virus.

Dr. Fauci Hospitalized With Rare Disease

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists gene hacked Toxoplasma gondii, the same brain parasite that can be spready by cat litter, into becoming a carrier for drugs.

Scientists Gene Hack Parasite to Deliver Drugs to Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

A common bacteria can easily manipulate the enzymes present in blood supplies to turn it into a universal donor type.

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Turns Any Blood Into Universal Donor Type

By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station has long been known to be gross, and according to a new study, it has bacteria mutating into something alien.

Mutant Bacteria Discovered Aboard International Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists seem to be close to creating a "one-and-done" vaccine that can protect against any strain of a virus with just one shot.

New Vaccine Could Protect Against Any Strain of a Virus With One Shot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ocean water and Arctic ice may contain viruses that can help trap pollution — and scientists are figuring out ways to enhance them.

Scientists Propose Hacking Viruses to Fight Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai