A new study demonstrates a method for deciphering the timing of a deceased person’s death using a lock of hair.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep across the globe, biological anthropologist Agustín Fuentes explains how the virus is a “biosocial” phenomenon.

Evolutionary history can help resolve the question of why so many people desire a physical break even when their bodies need movement.

The world has become enchanted with a three-legged mermaid called Amabie, said to help fight plague.

An archaeologist’s hip surgery prompts him to reimagine the experience of a Puebloan woman who survived a terrible fall centuries ago.

Public assistance recipients’ stories hold the key to clearing up misconceptions about who needs aid and why.

As women in the United States create networks to give or receive breast milk, anthropologists are illuminating the complex social and cultural forces that shape mothers’ choices.

Toxic chemicals known as PFAS pollute the water at more than 2,000 sites across the U.S.—and reside in the bodies of most Americans. How do residents cope with contamination?

For Haitian nationals who are being deported from the U.S. amid the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustices and health inequities run deep, to tragic effect.

In Venice, archaeologists have uncovered the dawn of the modern quarantine—and one of our favorite modern myths.