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In March 2020, Tagide deCarvalho saw something truly strange - something she thinks no other scientist has ever seen before: a virus with another, smaller virus latched onto its "neck." The backstory of this viral attachment is like a master class in how wild and weird biology can be. The two microbes are both bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, that were harvested from a clump of dirt in Poolesville, Md. Bacteriophages, also called simply phages, are among the most abundant organisms

Scientists discovered a strange virus called MiniFlayer that latches onto a larger virus called MindFlayer in soil collected in Maryland.

Pairs of viruses where one needs the other to reproduce are well documented, but no one has ever see one virus directly attached to another. "I can’t believe this,” Tagide deCarvalho remembers thinking when she first saw it under the microscope. The work opens up the possibility of finding more examples of this kind of interaction.

/PRNewswire/ -- A dedication ceremony for Life Magnified stamps was held today in partnership with the American Philatelic Society at the Great American Stamp...

A new series of stamps issued by the USPS feature images captured using microscopes and specialized photographic techniques.