Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

Hear ye! Hear ye! A new history fact has been debunked! According to bubo-bursting research by the German Museum of Medicine ...

Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork.

Artists often turn to the supernatural to reflect on and speak to the anxieties brought about by social, religious and ...

A Rutgers University study in New Jersey is exploring the cultivation of "baby ginger" as a potentially profitable crop for ...

This is Unhedged, the markets and finance podcast from the Financial Times and Pushkin. I am Rob Armstrong, coming to you ...

Living up to their motto of 'Proud to Serve', officers and sailors from HMAS Penguin marched through the streets of Mosman, ...

The Nazi high command was put on trial 80 years ago in 1945. The new film Nuremberg draws on a little-known detail of the ...

While the idea of a sweet treat dates back thousands of years, the concept of "candy" has been around for hundreds of years. These are some of the oldest candies in human history.

Dylan McGuinty Jr. has a vision of a coalition that could strike “a grand bargain” to pave the way for more traditional palliative care options in a Canada increasingly embracing euthanasia.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest - serving prime minister, may not admit it, but he’s at his wit’s end on the Gaza ...