President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he planned to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

North Carolina dentists tout the benefits of fluoride in water systems, even as some counties are looking to ban the substance.

China's DEEP Robotics is about to add a new quadruped to its kennel called the Lynx. But rather than go for walkies on pads, ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

[Related: The ‘granddaddy’ of all early hominins walked on Earth a lot longer than we thought.] Fossil teeth can help us ...

A dentist has explained how poor oral health could be quietly contributing to weight gain. According to Dr Andrej Bozic, an ...

Too much fluoride can make your teeth brown, but getting a little bit is a dentist's dream. Here's the complete history of ...

In England and Wales, less than ten per cent of the population has fluoride added to their water. However, Cornwall Council ...

Health chiefs could ask the government to allow fluoride to be added to Norfolk's drinking water - to help protect people against tooth decay.