The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and ...

At NC State University, an English professor is searching for clues from the past. He's looked back as far as the eighth ...

Robert Eggers beds his recent adaptation of Nosferatu in themes that are concrete, yet elusive. It is a gothic horror that sketches its philosophical and ...

In a new JAMA Dermatology study, scientists at King's College London found that changes in two parts of the genome work ...

In a new study, researchers have found that changes in two parts of the genome work together to influence alopecia risk.

Haunted locations around the world, such as India's Bhangarh Fort, China's Forbidden City, Paris's Catacombs, Canada's ...

The bubonic plague epidemic reached Hong Kong from southern China in 1894, and the effects were devastating. The disease raged for 30 years and resulted in over 20,000 deaths with a mortality rate of ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

Take a look back at movies that explore worlds in which viruses and diseases (or related metaphors) run rampant.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) had charged Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust over the deaths, which all occurred in 2021. The trust pleaded guilty to six charges of failing to ...