Weeks after the Eaton Fire burned through Altadena, USC researchers were curious if there were high levels of lead in the soil. Here’s what they found.

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

Lead exposure is particularly concerning among children under 6 years old, since their growing bodies absorb the metal faster ...

Two University of Southern California professors have found that Southern California may have dodged the worst of a hidden danger of the recent fires: lead exposure. Lead’s former prevalence in ...

New CABI-led research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the establishment and spread of a biological control agent used for the control of the ...

A baby orangutan at the New Orleans zoo showed its Chiefs pride, ripping up an Eagles T-shirt ahead of the Super Bowl.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago.The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Western governments and investors have spent much of the last week fretting about scientific breakthroughs from China.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost immediately.