When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

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

This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of ...

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

Lead has been affecting humans for over 2 million years. Scientists believe that this metal could affect brain development, ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

The $148,000 award supports collaborative research and community outreach on Pennsylvania’s Devonian fossil record.

Evolution is the underlying assumption of biology; nothing in the field makes sense without it. It should trouble us that so ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently published a religion and science addition to its Topics and Questions series addressing four subjects: the general compatibility of science and ...

It holds galaxies together, but we can’t see it. It promises a “theory of everything,” but explains almost nothing. This is a ...