We’re Relearning What Pandemics Do to a Society
But history also reveals that the aftershocks of pandemics can linger for far longer than five years. Signs suggest our ...
Grave hunter finds burial site believed to be of murdered mother and child
An unmarked grave, believed to belong to a murdered mother and child, has been found in a cemetery survey, ending a ...
Beauty lover left devastated after manicure goes horribly wrong
A beauty lover has been left devastated after her fresh manicure went horribly wrong. Gracie OKane, from Tennessee, posted a ...
Rolling Stone22d
Are Trump’s Actions ‘Unprecedented’? Here’s What Seven Historians Say
and a pandemic in the form of “an early form of bubonic plague” that killed hundreds of thousands. Swist explains that we may well empathize with the people who tried to live through all this ...
ExtremeTech27d
What Is Gravity, and How Does It Work?
Newton had come home to stay when his university closed down due to a bout of bubonic plague, and he was looking ... lies slightly outside one of the bodies; Jupiter is large enough that it ...
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Ancient ancestor of the plague discovered in Bronze Age sheep
The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...
Irish Central11d
Ireland’s bubonic plague scare in 1900
Bubonic plague is most commonly associated with the Middle Ages when the Black Death wiped out as many as 200 million people and 60% of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351.
Phys.org26d
Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows
Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...