Scientists have recently unearthed a collection of ancient viruses from the depths of a Tibetan glacier, offering a glimpse into viral evolution and environmental conditions thousands of years ago.

Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of these viruses are new to science. With this discovery, the number of ancient ...

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The frozen ground beneath our feet holds secrets from thousands of years past. These permanently frozen soils, known as permafrost, cover nearly a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere's land surface.

Around 8 percent of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from ancient viruses. These sequences, known as human endogenous retroviruses (or Hervs), date back hundreds of thousands to ...

As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers ...

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Edward Chuong and Atma Ivancevic at the BioFrontiers Institute. (Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder) Peek inside the human genome and, among the 20,000 or so genes that serve as building blocks of life, ...

An ancient virus that infected our ancestors tens of millions of years ago may be helping to fuel cancer today, according to a fascinating new study in Science Advances. Targeting these viral remnants ...

A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria. Image by Dr. Victor Padilla-Sanchez, PhD - Own work (CC BY-SA 4.0) A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within ...

Back in 2008, neurovirologist Renée Douville observed something weird in the brains of people who'd died of the movement disorder ALS: virus proteins. But these people hadn't caught any known virus.