Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...

The discovery is linked to "matrilocality," a social system where a married couple lives with or near the wife's parents ...

"A 2 to 3 points lower IQ doesn't sound like much, but when you apply that to the entire European population, it's quite a ...

A study analyzing Arctic ice cores reveals that lead pollution during the Roman Empire's height contributed to an estimated 2 ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air ...

Using ancient DNA, researchers identified migration patterns in Europe during the first millennium AD, linking genetic ...

Researchers sought to investigate lead's role in population control and disease in the Ancient Roman Empire, which was indebted to ... to create maps of the lead pollution levels across Europe, ...

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive ...

DRI scientists analyzed Arctic ice core records to reconstruct historical atmospheric lead pollution from Ancient Rome, uncovering a link between lead exposure and cognitive decline. Lead exposure is ...