While the scenario and the virus were completely fictitious, scientists warn the threat of 'zombie viruses' emerging from ...

World Health Organization is preparing for future pandemics. It tested global readiness with 'Exercise Polaris'. The exercise ...

The outbreak began when a team of scientists and documentary film-makers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the frozen Arctic tundra.

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

But according to a new study, the answer could actually lie in the Arctic. Scientists have warned that melting ... Similarly, in 2023, scientists successfully revived an amoeba virus that had been ...

In the Arctic, permafrost plays a crucial role in building infrastructure. However, as the region warms and permafrost thaws, infrastructure is threatened as the ground shifts beneath the built ...

As the ice in the Arctic melts, more industries and people are flocking to the area, raising the chance for infectious diseases to spread, says Dr. Khaled Megahed Abass of the University of Sharjah ...

Any of these could pose a problem, whether it's because we're talking about a virus that is deadly for ... posed by infectious agents in thawing Arctic permafrost and ice. But we really need ...