Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

(Clarissa Casper | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hoppy, a recently captured beaver, rests in the beaver bunkhouse in Millville on ...

Gareth Edwards made his feature film debut 15 years ago with a sci-fi movie that paved the way for Jurassic World Rebirth in 2025.

Masking, distancing and quarantines keep chimpanzees safe from human disease, a new study shows. This is an important finding ...

The British steamship Castanos arrived at Key West from Vera Cruz. As part of a new quarantine process, the vessel was fumigated, with all articles onboard subjected to steam ...

The film "Guardians of Our Country's Health" showcases the vital role of the United States Public Health Service in maintaining the nation's health by inspecting ships and airplanes arriving from ...

Overall, human quarantine was, and remains, the biggest quack “remedy” in the history of medicine. Quarantine started at a time when there was no detailed knowledge of the aetiology of disease.