It’s not Tulio de Oliveira’s fault that every mutated variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 has more than one name, much less that they all read like hack-proof passwords. But de Oliveira might ...

The World Health Organization said Nov. 29 that global spread of a new coronavirus variant, named omicron, could result in "severe consequences," as early research indicates it's possible that the ...

SOME names for microbes, like Salmonella, trip off the tongue. Others, like Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio-gogogochensis, aren’t so easy to say. Labels for coronavirus ...