Genocide is not a new phenomenon in human experience. It was practiced in Biblical times and long before that.  Indeed, many historians postulate the ...

Neanderthals, our extinct cousins, are often portrayed as eating nothing but meat — no fruit, no grains, no greens. But did Neanderthals really live on meat alone? While there's plenty of evidence ...

Neanderthals weren’t brutish cavemen—they were skilled, social, and deeply human. This documentary explores how they lived, what they left behind, and why they disappeared. Don’t expect correct change ...

In a sealed cave in France, scientists uncovered intricate engravings made 57,000 years ago—long before modern humans arrived. Created by Neanderthals using their fingers on soft limestone walls, ...

Lead is often thought of as a modern toxin, but a new study has found that it's been haunting us and our ancestors for almost 2 million years. Stranger still, exposure could actually have given humans ...

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Having already established a commercial infrastructure for its oral hereditary angioedema (HAE) drug Orladeyo and eager to pinpoint the source of its future growth, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals has struck ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...