Hysteria, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is "behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess." That pretty much sums up the Satanic Panic of the 1980s when parents across ...

Imagine a world so reliant on technology that a single glitch threatens to crash banking systems, trigger nuclear meltdowns, and cause mass global hysteria. No, it's not an AI doomsday scenario. It ...

It sounds sexist, and it’s sure to raise the ire of some feminists, but the literature does not lie. Throughout history, groups of people in cohesive social units have suddenly fallen ill or exhibited ...

The students were hundreds of miles apart. Drugs were blamed at first. But now, researchers believe the truth was far stranger: It was likely one of the first cases of mass hysteria spreading online.