Harada et al. describe an archaeon, recovered from a single marine plankton cell, whose 238-kb genome is the smallest known for the domain. It has lost nearly all metabolism but keeps the machinery to...

Health minister says 28 contacts identified after death of citizen who arrived from DRC on Saturday

Why a mysterious death in Siberia has captured our attention while far more consequential outbreaks struggle to do the same

Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello continue their ongoing exasperation over 5 deaths in Pennsylvania associated with measles infections, the absurdity of RFK Jr.’s st...

Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.

Fiji’s rapidly growing epidemic is a warning about what happens when complacency, vulnerability and retreating resources give the virus an opening

Grad students should make time for casual conversations with peers, this Ph.D. student writes

The pathogen, which reduces milk production, is the latest midge-transmitted virus affecting ruminants to reach the continent

What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

Influenza cases are peaking unusually late in the year in Australia, so if you haven't had your flu jab this season, it's actually not too late.

Minnesota is the nation’s hot spot for both commercial poultry and wild-bird detections.

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

An immunologist and his illustrator friend reveal tips and tricks to help scientists to reach peak performance and creativity.

How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science, masking the human in the process by design. This Perspective invites us to consider the structure of the scientific paper, and the ne...

The emergence of the panzootic clade 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in 2020 marked a major expansion in the host range of influenza A viruses (IAVs), raising concerns about further cr...