In 2010, a computer worm called Stuxnet sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program. It wasn’t ordinary malware—it was the world’s first true cyberweapon, capable of crippling nations.

Tal Feldman is a student at Yale Law School who formerly built AI and data tools for U.S. government agencies. Jonathan ...

Suspected Chinese hackers have used the Brickstorm malware in long-term persistence espionage operations against U.S.

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make ...

The viruses had their DNA written by an AI model and are already wreaking havoc on bacteria in the real world.

Mosquito-borne viruses can cause more than fevers and joint pain. In severe cases, they invade the brain, leading to seizures ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein on the surface of ...

Stanford and Arc Institute used AI to design viruses that kill bacteria, sparking hope for new therapies and warnings over biosecurity risks.

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, ...

Protein on the surface of brain cells appears to play a key role in disease progression — plus, a bot explores what might have happened to research if the Trump’s teams funding cuts had happened 10 ...