In the heart of Dubai’s bustling DIFC financial center stands an arresting installation – a row of towering obelisks, their ...

The “total fertility rate” is a coarse estimate of the number of children an average woman will bear. A population will be ...

The launch of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour presale has sparked widespread frustration among fans, as unprecedented demand and technical challenges plague ... Beyoncé’s drawing power and ...

“Ever since she was little, like most budding artists, she would love to draw and color and make things in art class ... and I wanted to show something that represents both of those people, or anybody ...

To be Black in America, artist John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015) once said, was to endure "a kind of slow death." How best to fight that protracted, demoralizing violence? For Wilson, one solution was ...

Eight of 10 Ventura County cities have switched to district elections, and the change has brought a big increase in Latinos ...

"Anora,” a strip-club Cinderalla story without the fairy tale ending, was crowned best picture at the 97th Academy Awards on ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...

according to “The Hairstons,” a 1999 book by Henry Wiencek that chronicles the Black and white Hairston families. Samuel Hairston, the plantation's owner, was reputedly the largest enslaver in ...

In Britain alone, the Black Death wiped out up to half of the population when it struck between 1348 and 1350. But now, new research has found that the plague may actually have been present in ...