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

On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

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

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

A new scientific review tackles an age-old question: could dogs ever learn to talk? While barking out full sentences might ...

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

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

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

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 ...

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

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...