In the original movies, House Elves are only really portrayed via Dobby and Kreacher, despite their huge role in the books.

Hogwarts seems like a great place to learn at the start of the Harry Potter franchise. All the professors are passionate about their subjects, and there’s so much to do on campus, including watching ...

The new research about the Black Death was published earlier this month Getty Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may have been triggered by one or more volcanic eruptions The ...

Trees hold the secret to the deadly plague that ripped through Europe Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death in motion.

A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states to ...

Volcanoes have always held an incredible power capable of shaping the course of human history. Around 1,600 B.C.E., an explosion on the Greek island of Santorini likely wiped out Europe’s first ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so quickly. The plague known as the Black Death arrived in southern Europe in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. From specific geographical areas, the waning gibbous moon ...

New interdisciplinary evidence shows how a mid-14th-century volcanic cooling reshaped Mediterranean food security, redirected grain ships from the Black Sea, and inadvertently opened the door to one ...

OpenAI is being sued for wrongful death by the estate of a woman killed by her son, who had been engaging in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT. Stein-Erik Soelberg spent months talking to the ...

Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what triggered the deadly plague that wiped out over half the medieval population of Europe. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz ...

As many workers are returning to downtown offices (whether they want to or not), restaurants around the D.C. area are beginning to roll out lunch menus and lunch specials for anyone dying to get away ...