A months-long outbreak of scabies at a Selkirk personal care home has families upset and the local MLA urging health officials to do more to eradicate the problem. Tudor House has confirmed it is ...

Ivermectin was originally celebrated as a revolutionary treatment for parasitic disease in humans and animals. It has since ...

THE WEEK spoke to Kalema-Zi kusoka, 56, on the sidelines of the T.N. Khoshoo Memorial Award and Lecture, organised by the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, in Bengaluru ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2 ...

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens.

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Archaeologists raced to document the semi-fossilized tracks in eastern Scotland. They were likely made by humans, deer and ...