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Life

The Earliest Known Plague Wasn’t Spread by Rats, DNA Study Reveals

12.21.25

By Ashley Fike
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Life

Volcanoes May Have Helped Spread the Black Death, Study Finds

12.05.25

By Luis Prada
News

What the Black Death’s Labor Shortage Can Tell Us About Our Own

01.21.22

By Emma Ockerman
News

China Is Warning About a Possible Bubonic Plague Outbreak Because That’s How 2020 Is Going

07.06.20

By David Gilbert
Health

Ancient Skeletons Might Explain One of Humanity’s Worst Epidemics

01.15.18

By Shayla Love
Tech

Scientists Recreated One of Our Deadliest Plagues to Understand Its Evolution

09.02.16

By Sarah Emerson
Tech

Here’s Where Animal Diseases Are Jumping into Humans

06.15.16

By Sarah Emerson
Tech

The Dark Ages Were Caused By Two Enormous Volcanic Eruptions

04.20.16

By Sarah Emerson
Tech

Are You in a Plague Risk Zone? Here’s a Handy Map

12.31.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

My Brief Encounter with a Dark Web ‘Human Trafficking’ Site

07.27.15

By Joseph Cox
Food

Drinking the Black Death in Iceland

06.11.15

By Kelsey Osgood
Health

The Black Plague Is Spreading in Madagascar

11.24.14

By Allie Conti