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Nanotextured plastic films grab and stretch the outer shells of deadly viruses, and could be a go-to solution for keeping ...

As antibiotic resistance grows, scientists are turning to bacteriophages, viruses that target harmful bacteria without wiping ...

Targeting high-precision floating-point arithmetic operations in engineering modeling software, Fast16 may now be the ...

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local ...

During the early stages of a pandemic, viruses tend to evolve in ways that enhance their ability to reproduce and spread, ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect and kill bacteria. These microscopic predators are found everywhere from soil and water to food and ...

If a second "novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)" were to emerge, would we have to endure staying at home again while ...

Researchers have long considered the Stuxnet attacks on Iran's nuclear centrifuges in Natanz to be the opening chapter of ...

With longer days, warmer weather and a little more breathing room in the schedule, summer often feels like the perfect time ...

Attackers continue to scale a campaign to seed Open VSX with seemingly benign VS Code extensions that spread self-propagating ...

Scientists at Durham University, working in partnership with Jagiellonian University in Poland, have developed a new nanoscale tool that can capture and precisely position some of the most important ...