Like sponges and comb jellies, humans are also made of the same building blocks of DNA. Today, our bodies rely on the ancient innovation of distal regulation to help create different types of ...

The threads of Begay's weaving skills lead back decades to a small house on ... she tamped it into place with a wooden comb. One row finished, hundreds — thousands — to go.

One of the most advanced fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal faces an engineering problem which an ancient Chinese silk-weaving tactic ... wise to follow the lead of Chinese engineers ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome was so high that it dropped the population’s IQ by around 3 points, if not more. Elites were exposed to lead through water pipes, cooking pots, bath tubs ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy - and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean ...

Core samples from a peat bog and the bottom of the Aegean Sea were analysed to determine historic lead levels. Researchers hope to narrow their focus on what ancient areas became metal production ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome may have dropped the average IQ by up to three points, a new study has found. In the paper, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Humans have been mucking up Earth for far longer, to our own detriment, as exemplified by new research linking lead air pollution to cognitive losses during the Pax Romana. People living during ...

Some have even argued that lead poisoning played a role in the downfall of the Roman empire. Most of those arguments have focused on ancient writings and archeology that provide hints about lead’s ...

Ancient lead pollution stemmed largely from silver mining, whereby the lead-rich mineral galena was melted down to extract silver. For every ounce of silver obtained, this process produced ...

Ancient Rome thrived during the 200 years of peace known as Pax Romana, which occurred over the first and second centuries of the Common Era. But an unknown enemy poisoned nearly everyone in the ...