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Creating artificial-intelligence models to find treatments for cardiac diseases

How did we get here?

In his final interview, the “swashbuckling” geneticist pointed the way for science

Meet the researchers who may one day change the world

Scientists have modeled the potential size of this current outbreak, which some experts think could become one of the worst Ebola epidemics on record

As millions of soccer fans pack FIFA World Cup venues, public health scientists created a wastewater monitoring network to forecast potential disease threats—from measles to Ebola

This marks the first case of the New World screwworm in U.S. livestock since the parasite was eliminated in the country in the 1960s

Religious colleges, trade schools and others are lobbying to change proposed federal regulations that would deny loans for programs that don’t lead to higher salaries.

Bundibugyo virus is an uncommon species of Ebola-causing virus that has been linked to only two other known outbreaks

Bundibugyo virus is an uncommon species of Ebola-causing virus that has been linked to only two other known outbreaks

“As another Ebola outbreak unfolds, we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past,” writes Krutika Kuppalli.

A decade after Ebola vaccines changed outbreak response, a new epidemic in central Africa is caused by a strain the world never fully prepared for

Scientific American spoke to one of the people who are currently being monitored for possible hantavirus infection at the National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska

Researchers at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory worked round the clock to develop a test for the Andes virus at the center of the deadly cruise ship outbreak

The hantavirus cruise outbreak may not have started in a garbage dump in Ushuaia, Argentina, after all

Transcript for Update on CDC's Hantavirus Response

The Andes type of the hantavirus is spread by “close contact,” but it’s unclear how much of that transmission occurs by inhaling airborne droplets or other means

People exposed to the Andes strain of the hantavirus may not develop symptoms for up to 42 days, a delay that makes tracing infections more difficult

A condition that affects 10 to 15 percent of women may affect men, too. But many doctors don’t know about it

David Attenborough once directed programming at the BBC and has hosted numerous award-winning nature documentaries, but he’s always stayed down-to-earth, colleagues say

Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

The HHS secretary defended proposed budget cuts to science, his vaccine moves and health care costs on Capitol Hill on Thursday

Do declining immune systems explain the trend, or is something else going on? Experts explain

NASA’s Orion capsule and the four astronauts on board have made it back to Earth after 10 days in space and a record-breaking mission around the moon and back

The first images from NASA’s Artemis II mission's lunar flyby were worth the wait

A daring 10-day voyage will take four astronauts on a loop around the moon and set the stage for future forays to the lunar surface

The U.S. space agency is targeting Wednesday evening to loft four astronauts on what may be a record-breaking trip around the moon—see the spacecraft live

Infections of the BA.3.2 variant of the COVID-causing coronavirus are still at very low levels, but experts are concerned it may be resistant to immunity from vaccines or prior infection

Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

A federal judge on Monday issued a stay on the CDC’s move to reduce the number of routinely recommended childhood vaccines

Punch, a monkey that went viral after he was abandoned by his mother in a Japanese zoo, is reminiscent of a foundational attachment theory experiment