Seasons change, and shorter days arrive quickly. It’s natural to think about your furry family members who are outdoors. A cat waits at the door, wanting to go out now. A question pops into mind: can ...

"This really has the possibility of ending HIV transmission," said Greg Millett, public policy director at The Foundation for ...

If you wrote a novel featuring six sisters like the Mitfords — a notorious Nazi supporter, a noted communist, a blockbuster author of sparkling romantic fiction, and that's only half ...

Francesco Risso is stepping down as Marni creative director after a decade, the OTB Group announced Tuesday, marking yet another high-level creative shift in the fashion world. OTB Chairman Renzo ...

Months before Ananda Lewis lost her battle with breast cancer, the former MTV VJ offered insight into why she opted not to have a double mastectomy. Ananda’s sister, Lakshmi Lewis, announced the news ...

Juliette Powell, a former MuchMusic VJ and author, has died. The 54-year-old, who appeared on Canadian television in the '90s as a host of Electric Circus and French Kiss died on June 3 after a brief ...

Andrew Stuttaford collects sources arguing that the depopulation that followed the Black Death of 1348 had a silver lining:. In 1300 England’s population had been around six million. In 1350 ...

Research has revealed that the evolution of a single gene in Yersinia pestis - the bacterium that causes bubonic plague - allowed it to adapt and survive for so long.

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history, killing an estimated 30 to 50 per cent of the populations of Europe, Western Asia and Africa as it moved through those ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of ...

The Black Death was caused by the same bacteria which caused Plague of Justinian, the first plague pandemic which had broken out in the mid-500s. The third plague pandemic began in China in 1855 ...

Scientists are also studying how the immune system deals with this microbiome, and learns to tolerate it. The human body has to sequester the gut microbiome, and the gut lining or epithelium is a ...