The average person in the US will live to celebrate their 76th birthday. There's only a 30 percent chance you will see your ...

Lethal injections are the primary method of execution in the U.S. Most states use one drug or a cocktail of three to render ...

Warning: These stories will make your stomach turn. Here’s 15 cases in which a Black person’s execution was halted or stalled ...

Because it infects humans via fleas and rats, the Black Death has been mischaracterized ... a punishment sent by God and sought to halt its spread by taking part in public displays of penance.

A report says Black inmates sentenced to death by lethal injection suffered a botched procedure at higher rates than white ...

New research being presented at this year's ESCIMD Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27–30 April), finds ...

A dead disease is infecting beavers throughout Utah, which experts warn could become life-threatening to humans ... experts because the last animal death connected with the disease was in ...

An analysis of all the publicly available viral genome sequences yielded a surprising result: humans give more viruses ... The 14th century Black Death - when the bacterial disease bubonic ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Spiders are normally not aggressive and do not attack humans or bite them at ...

Artificial intelligence also plays a role as humans and other organisms join forces on an epic adventure to locate an ancient artifact.

Were early humans violent or peaceful ... Cultural diffusionism, the idea that civilization spread from a single source, often identified as white—Mesopotamia, Northern Europe—“also ...

Among the pregnancy-related deaths, the group found that mental health conditions were the overall leading cause of death, followed by overdose. For Black maternal mortality during this period ...