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 ...

This tiny track, alongside those of an older child and at least one adult, is at the heart of a remarkable discovery. For the ...

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.

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

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 ...

"We found clear signals of episodic lead exposure in 73 percent of the specimens (71 percent for hominins Australopithecus, ...

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 ...

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.