When cases of plague pop up in the US, it can feel straight up medieval. It's treatable, but how and why does it persist?

America’s recent flirtation with kingship is unsettling, but history has shown us that monarchy is much more than power grabs ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

A University of Arkansas archaeologist is part of a team that discovered the first example of ancient plague DNA in domesticated livestock.

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

Learn about the first evidence of the Bronze Age plague in a non-human host, found in a sheep bone from Russia.

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...