The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

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

Ebola virus is an infectious agent and one of the viruses that can cause haemorraghic fever, a severe infectious disease characterized by high fever and bleeding, in humans and some monkeys.

The novel virus was wriggling around a well-preserved wool mammoth specimen from thawing permafrost, permanently frozen ...

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 ...

An exercise by the UN agency earlier this month simulated an outbreak of a “fictional” virus spreading across the world Read Full Article at ...

The fictional scenario depicted a team of scientists and documentary filmmakers excavating a woolly mammoth from the Arctic ...

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

If you were to ask any self-proclaimed Arctic Monkeys fan which song they think is the best – or most important – you’d likely spark one of the most divisive debates ever. You might get the early ...

Scientists in the high Arctic are lifting their labs into the air to avoid damage from melting permafrost. Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic is the world's most northerly settlement. A team of ...