Researchers have discovered the first giant virus in Finland. The specimen demonstrates that such huge viruses are more ...

Here's an amoeba engulfing red blood cells and ... to places we'd never seen before - the electron microscope. The specimen is put in a vacuum and is viewed not by light waves but by a single ...

Brain-eating amoebae And then there’s Naegleria fowleri, the notorious brain-eating amoeba. Found in warm freshwater lakes and hot springs, this microscopic menace can cause a deadly infection ...