New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

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For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

The common cold is so ubiquitous that it feels like background noise, yet for a subset of people it is a wrecking ball that ...

Following the Nipah virus outbreak in India, we asked experts about ongoing research into treatments, if there is a cause for ...