Gustave Eiffel, the accomplished engineer who oversaw construction of the Eiffel Tower which bears his name, once quipped, “I ...

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

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

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

Gov. Gavin Newsom and leaders in the California Legislature have generally agreed to provide long-term funding for a ...

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 ...

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