Centuries-old cemetery points to colder climate as a factor in childhood vitamin D deficiency in industrial England
Children in 18th and 19th century England got sick with rickets at high rates, and most explanations point…
6,000-year-old infant from ancient Mesopotamia shows one of the world’s oldest signs of child abuse
A 6,000-year-old infant buried in ancient Syria has given researchers what looks like the oldest known case of…
Ancient herpesvirus genomes reveal a 2,500-year history of human infection
For decades, human betaherpesviruses 6A and 6B were thought to be relatively recent scientific discoveries, having only been…