Earlier this week, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally unequivocally confirmed that the Zika virus causes microcephaly in infants – confirming what most scientists had long ...

NASA scientists have created a map to better target future search-and-destroy missions for the deadliest animal on the planet, the female Aedes aegypti mosquito. The blood-sucking females are ...

The southeastern US, including much of Texas through to Florida, have ideal conditions for spread of Zika virus according to a new study published in eLife. A large portion of global tropical and ...

Parts of the U.S. could face a year-round risk of Zika, according to a new map created by NASA that attempts to predict hot spots for the virus. NASA researchers plotted the Zika risk for 50 large U.S ...

Google is throwing its weight behind efforts to combat the Zika virus, with new tools, grant money, and some help from the Latin American Sesame Street. Since November, Google searches related to the ...