Fewer than half of Americans (46%) know that a knocked-out tooth can often be saved with prompt care, according to a new national survey of 2,000 adults, even as most say they would prefer to keep ...

The 60,000-year-old tooth, viewed from different angles. (Zubova et al., PLOS One, 2026, CC-BY 4.0) A 60,000-year-old ...

A toothache that lingers for weeks might seem like a dental problem and nothing more. But a growing body of research, ...

It was in 2017 that Arun Roy (name changed) was scathed by the kerosene lamp he used to study. “I was studying, sitting over ...

According to a Harvard trained dentist who has run dental practices across Southern California for years, most patients have no plan for what to do when a dental emergency hits. The default move, he ...

A deep cavity in a single Neanderthal molar from Siberia looks less like random damage and more like a deliberate act of ...

As new settlers clear their forest habitat, the apes are coming into conflict with humans. But simply moving them to another part of the forest may not be the answer ...

More ICE detainees died in custody in 2025 than in any year in at least two decades, and 2026 is on track to be even higher.

Altering the course of human events takes a grand idea and careful execution—most of the time. But at these fateful points, ...

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, let’s remember how sailors with 20 cents missing from their paychecks led us to ...

The 2026 cruise ship outbreak has thrust into global view a pathogen with a 40 percent fatality rate, no approved treatment ...

Dental pain has a way of arriving at the worst possible time. When dental pain strikes, most people instinctively head ...