Asher Watkins, a 52-year-old Texas millionaire renowned for his success in luxury ranch real estate, was fatally gored by a ...

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Some celebrity deaths hit the Black community differently. Such is the case with the passing of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who ...

The origins of the Black Death are a mystery no more, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. The Black Death was a plague caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis that first ...

From the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death to polio and AIDS, pandemics have violently reshaped civilization since humans first settled into towns thousands of years ago. No one can know ...

The Black Death, dying out in the 17th century, lost the fight. The last great epidemic was in 1670 - after that smallpox took over as the number one infectious disease killer.

The Black Death’s gruesome, powerful hold on the human psyche is readily understandable. But why is it that so many people yearn for a return to the cold, miserable conditions that spawned the ...

Climate change could re-awaken ancient diseases and even the Black Death, according to an Oxford University professor. Higher global temperatures would melt ice sheets that store long-buried bacter… ...