Rats have long been associated with and blamed for the spread of plague, a disease that has killed over 200 million people throughout the past two millennia. The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic ...

Plagues can manifest seemingly out of nowhere, bombarding sapient life with zombification, horrifying rot, or even death of ...

In 1665, London officials issued a pamphlet they hoped would help stop an outbreak of the plague or Black Death. Some people think this ... this is not true for other diseases like bubonic plague.

In the papal conclave to elect a new pope, here's a look at what the color of smoke (black or white) means after each vote.

Figures like Du Bois, Hurston, and Baldwin stitched freedom into fabric—not out of vanity but vision. To revisit their style ...

Black smoke means the election of a new pope was inconclusive. White smoke means a new pope has been selected.

They included viruses such as anthrax and bubonic plague, according to the Washington Post. The extraordinary details have come to light because thousands of State Department documents dealing ...

The Black Death was far from unique: the first of the great plague pandemics swept across Europe in the second and third centuries AD, and the Celtic monks of Wales and Ireland chronicled the second, ...

A curtain opens on a stage to reveal different shaped animated characters - a sphere, a cube and a pyramid. NARRATOR: It's crunch time for the 3D crew. And who's going to take home the coveted ...