Revolutionary-era smallpox, the still-mysterious ignition of the Black Death, a modern measles outbreak shaped by community identity and distrust, and the promise of genetics to build safer drugs—a ...

The medieval village of Tal-y-llyn on Anglesey was abandoned after the plague struck in 1349, killing an estimated third of ...

The sole survivor was a medieval church where, 650 years later, a victim of the Post Office scandal was to find solace ...

As her eighth novel becomes hot Hollywood property, the writer shares her thoughts on the Bard and gears up for the Golden ...

There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal ...

The Black Death tore through Europe in the late 1340s, killing tens of millions and halving populations across the continent in a matter of years. Scientists have long known the plague’s culprit was ...

Going back further, Addison Street had the dishonour of being named Deadman's Lane, and appears as Sickman's Lane in other records. In 1651, bubonic plague hit Liverpool, and Sickman's/Deadman's Lane ...

Volcanoes have always held an incredible power capable of shaping the course of human history. Around 1,600 B.C.E., an explosion on the Greek island of Santorini likely wiped out Europe’s first ...

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

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe. Researchers from ...