The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

The Trump administration is going after microplastics in drinking water. A new plan to study and regulate plastic pollution was announced on Thursday by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F ...

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by human hunters, archaeologists say in a new study. For long, ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced a massive joint effort to measure, understand and remove microplastics and ...

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investigating the ways that toxic microplastics build up within the human body and looking for ways to guard consumers against their ...

Plastic pollution has become one of the defining environmental issues of modern life, and microplastics are now known to enter the body through food, drink, and air. Previous studies have detected ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

The human genome of West Eurasia has been far more affected by natural selection in the last 10,000 years than previously ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning out to be surprisingly difficult. When you purchase through links on our ...