DEFORMED squirrels covered in wart-like tumours have descended on suburban gardens across the US. People have been increasingly spotting the horrifying zombie-esque animals and their strange ...

Last fall Alexa started seeing a man she met on a dating app. He asked her to get tested for sexually transmitted infections before they began having sex. The first thing she noticed on her screening ...

In an Australian first, a Canberra man has been convicted for giving genital herpes to a sexual partner. The man pleaded guilty to the charge of “recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm”, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Western male chimps attack Basie in 2019. Basie, center and grimacing, was a member of the Central chimps. - Aaron Sandel Aaron ...

Researchers dubbed one experiment involving a roughly one-foot-tall crystal "The Monolith" in honor of Stanley Kubrick's iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Aden Kahr Humans have long been fascinated ...

In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps. A chimp named Toti attentively observes a quartz crystal at a rehabilitation facility in Spain ...

Chimps also do not usually use their mouths to carry objects, so this behavior could mean they were hiding them, a behavior consistent with treating the crystals as valuable, the team pointed out.

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

Herpes simplex virus is a master of bad timing—reappearing briefly, often unnoticed, and just long enough to keep the immune system on its toes. In its genital form, herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2 ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham have modified a herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) that stimulates the immune system to attack glioblastoma cells. A single dose of the modified virus increased T-cell, ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — An equine herpes virus outbreak is forcing major changes at this year’s National Finals Rodeo and costing local businesses thousands of dollars in lost revenue. The virus has spread ...

An international research team has determined the first high-resolution structures of the herpes simplex virus origin-binding protein (OBP), a critical component of viral DNA replication that has ...