Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in Science Advances Alysson Muotri, a geneticist at the University of California, ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...

From traditional home remedies to modern cosmetic shelves, alum stone known scientifically as potassium alum, has stood ...

The building is an eight-story steel-framed structure. It was Missoula’s first “skyscraper” of that sort. In business and ...

Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the ...

Sometimes robots would get stuck in impossible situations, or behave in weird ways, just because they were trying to follow ...