Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...

He is a cancer survivor - aided by scientists who test dozens of drugs on miniature tumours they grow using cells from children and teenagers with cancer. Each year, around 400,000 children and ...