Wisdom teeth are the last set of molars that usually appear in late teens or early twenties. For some people, they grow in ...

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The term gingivitis tells us what to expect. It’s when the gums (the gingiva) are inflamed (-itis). It’s essentially the body’s immune response to microbes in the sticky biofilm or plaque on the tooth ...

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

A fossil found in Georgia is helping scientists answer a big question: why do humans have such a long childhood? Compared to ...

A three-year-old lioness rescued from war-torn Ukraine has undergone critical dental surgery to remove a severely infected ...

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the ...

A beautiful spot in Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, is an essential habitat for many animals. That area, more than 10 ...

The director, who stopped shooting movies years ago to focus on writing scores and his own records, shares some inspirational work from film history with the producer Adam Howard. Robert P. George ...

After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one ...