Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

Hundreds of life-sized animal petroglyphs suggest that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, ...

Halloween today is about candy, costumes, and spooky fun, with children dressed as superheroes and princesses going ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

As evidence of alcohol's harms mounts, some people are testing out sobriety. Look to ancient civilizations' ways for a reset, scholars suggest.

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

“A bird that has a lifetime of experience with novelty will probably desensitize to a scarecrow faster,” Friedman explains.

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 ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

Research reveals that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals encountered unexpected levels of lead exposure, shaping how our ...