Explore the often misunderstood hygiene practices of the Middle Ages. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone was ...

Popular culture often portrays the Middle Ages as an era of constant filth, but the reality was more nuanced. Medieval towns ...

How far would you go to feel beautiful? If you were a woman in the Middle Ages, you might be will to douse yourself in hedgehog oil.

Animal skins used to make historic manuscripts have revealed the 3,500-year history of the sheep pox virus (SPPV). By recovering viral DNA from parchment, researchers traced the pathogen across Bronze ...

In 1386, an elderly Devon landowner had a compelling reason for being excused a journey to give evidence in court. He was Sir John Sully, and according to the account highlighted by historian Dr Ian ...

A new analysis of teeth and parchment suggests that the devastating sheep pox virus has been infecting livestock for 3,700 years ...

Migrations of many organisms, including humans, are often constrained by geography. Ning et al. sequenced ancient DNA from 135 Bronze Age and Iron Age individuals across 11 archeological sites located ...

On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a discussion of the seemingly forgotten attack on the Yazidi people by ISIS in 2014. Then, David is joined by the ...

Scientists have uncovered sweeping changes in how the human brain controls and organizes its genome beginning in midlife, offering new clues to why aging sharply increases the risk of Alzheimer’s and ...

Matt Morse, Manager of the Legionella Control Association, discusses the challenges and gaps in water hygiene compliance in the UK Compliance is a word often misused or misunderstood to mean following ...

Purging was one of the hangover cures prescribed in the Middle Ages. Tacuinum Sanitatis manuscript Anyone who has ever woken up with a hangover will recognise its physical and psychological effects: ...

Aging isn’t as linear as a number going up. Different parts of you age at different rates, and aging depends on a variety of factors. Your individual organs, for example, might age differently from ...