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

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

Unusual preservative in specimen jars proved to be a sweet solution for studying changes in genetic diversity among fish ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

Our story began long before Homo sapiens—through apes, early primates, and ancient mammals that survived global extinctions and shifting continents. This documentary traces every key step across 65 ...

Columbus wasn't the first European to reach the Western Hemisphere; the Vikings had landed in Newfoundland about 500 years ...

Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...

In Morocco’s Jebel Irhoud cave, miners stumbled upon skulls that changed everything we knew about human evolution. Dated to 315,000 years ago, these remains show that Homo sapiens evolved across ...

Scientists from Peking University have uncovered new genetic evidence that sheds light on how prehistoric people in China ...