While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

Historical records from 1350 show that as many as 12,000 people were buried in 11 “ plague pits ” outside the city of Erfurt, ...

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Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

What hurts more than a nail-biting cliffhanger? A cliffhanger that'll never be resolved. Sadly, that's exactly what happened ...

During his recent appearance on Just Foolin About with Michael Biehn, James Cameron expressed his thoughts on Newt’s death in Alien 3. The film, which was a sequel to Cameron’s 1986 film Aliens, saw ...

The hanging death of a Black man in Brookfield, Wisconsin has led to questions from his family and community members. Torrance Medley, 39, was found hanging from a tree near the Brookfield Hills Golf ...

Trees hold the secret to the deadly plague that ripped through Europe Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death in motion.

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so quickly. The plague known as the Black Death arrived in southern Europe in ...

The new research about the Black Death was published earlier this month Getty Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may have been triggered by one or more volcanic eruptions The ...

A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states to ...

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death—the most devastating pandemic in human history—to the shores of medieval Europe, new ...