Flu, polio, AIDS. We all know that viruses have caused immeasurable suffering throughout human history. And when asked to describe a virus, most people probably would say, "small." Indeed ...

The search to find a vaccine to prevent polio took many years and countless experiments before the disease was eventually eradicated in the United States.

The Cookie Monster virus might be the world's first computer virus; it was created in the 1960s by MIT students to annoy their fellow classmates. The virus freezes everything on the computer ...