Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of ...

A groundbreaking study from the Max Planck Institute reveals that modern humans and Neanderthals had nearly identical brain ...

I wasn’t always doing this, you know. It wasn’t as if the Belfast Telegraph editor simply chucked a typewriter in my direction as soon as I was old enough to spell onomatopoeia.

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 ...

Lead is often thought of as a modern toxin, but a new study has found that it's been haunting us and our ancestors for almost ...

According to Prof Pask, one of the key goals of Colossal Biosciences in bringing back extinct species would be to reintroduce ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

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

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

India can be a possible moderating influence in Afghanistan rather than wield little influence in the region by remaining ...