Environmental exposure to lead, a phenomenon once believed to be relatively recent in human history, actually dates back more ...

Scientists found that one tiny DNA change in the NOVA1 gene helped modern humans resist lead exposure that harmed ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

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

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

UC San Diego researchers found that ancient hominids were widely exposed to lead, potentially hindering brain and language ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became. Scientists studying ancient teeth found that early humans, great apes, and even ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

WITH THE DETAILS. EMILY. JESSICA. THE MAYOR SAYS HE’S STARTING A NEW TASK FORCE TARGETING SPAS AND SALONS LIKE THE ONE HERE BEHIND ME, ACCUSED OF TRAFFICKING YOUNG WOMEN. AND WHILE TWO HAVE ALREADY ...