The Black Death has long been framed as a purely biological catastrophe, a lethal bacterium riding into crowded ports and tearing through unprepared cities. New research now argues that the pandemic’s ...

The system identified 86,276 earthquakes—roughly ten times more than conventional detection methods had cataloged. Most of these events were too small and numerous for older techniques to isolate, ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...