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?

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

Historical records suggest that the town suffered devastating outbreaks in 1564, 1583, 1604 and, most famously, in 1665. In ...

The precise sequence of events that brought the deadly disease to Europe from Central Asia has been debated by boffins for ...

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

Cinnamaldehyde also helps decrease blood glucose levels, so enjoying some cinnamon tea after a big Christmas dinner can help ...

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.

Our understanding of the spread of the Black Death across Asia has for centuries been based on a misinterpretation of a medieval literary account. This revelation overturns established ...

William Parks is a Game Rant editor from the USA. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, William entered the realm of fine arts administration, ...

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 ...