“How to Survive a Plague” is a new acclaimed documentary about how activists fought to find a cure for AIDS. So successful has been the medical treatment of AIDS, that an entire generation of young ...

In the 1600s, London faced two nightmares back to back—the Great Plague and the Great Fire. Lives were lost, the city was scarred, but from the ashes rose a story of resilience that shaped its future.

Researchers claim to have discovered the cause of the 1665 Great Plague of London, which killed more than a quarter of the city’s population in the span of a year, according to CNN. Scientists from ...