Trillions Upon Trillions of Viruses Fall From the Sky Each Day (Published 2018)

Viruses attached to a fragment of a bacterial cell wall. “Viruses modulate the function and evolution of all living things,” scientists wrote last year. “But to what extent remains a mystery.”Credit...Biophoto Associates/Science Source High in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Spain, an international team of researchers set out four buckets to gather a shower of viruses falling from the sky. Scientis