In the second season of “Sugar,” Colin Farrell’s character has to deal with life alone. At the end of the first season, it ...

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order.

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A flu outbreak at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has sickened nearly 160 Air Force recruits, turning a basic training health problem into a national debate over military readiness, vaccine policy, ...

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth.

In prehistoric graves of children in Siberia, scientists have found the world’s oldest evidence of a plague outbreak. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As ...

Ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers buried near Lake Baikal in Siberia suggests there were deadly outbreaks of the plague as long as 5500 years ago. The finding runs counter to the long-standing idea ...

The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild. By Carl Zimmer In ancient Siberian graves, scientists have ...

Plague is commonly associated with rats, crowded medieval cities, and the epidemics that swept across Europe during and after the Middle Ages. But a new study published in Nature shows that the ...

IN 2011 A team of geneticists managed to recover centuries-old DNA from the teeth of bodies that had been buried in East Smithfield, a medieval cemetery in London. Besides human DNA, they were able to ...

The first half of 2026 has been marked by three different disease outbreaks: Ebola, hantavirus and, in Australia, diphtheria. Each has exposed vulnerabilities in how we detect, communicate and respond ...