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

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

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

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

To dig deeper, the researchers developed a method for measuring activation patterns in astrocytes across a whole brain of a ...

Researchers at USC have created the first method to noninvasively measure microscopic blood vessel pulses in the human brain. Using advanced 7T MRI, they found these tiny pulsations grow stronger with ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

Homo floresiensis was a diminutive species of hominin that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores and went extinct about 60,000 years ago. While hominin brains kept increasing throughout human ...

From hidden planets to invisible cosmic signals, some of the most important astronomical discoveries happened while scientists were chasing something else entirely.

The man who opened fire and killed four people at the NFL's New York City office in July had "unambiguous diagnostic evidence" of low-stage CTE, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ...

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