Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...

From a 5,500-year-old human shinbone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the ...

A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.

The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Scientists have extracted DNA from one of Leonardo da Vinci's works, potentially offering a glimpse into the genetic makeup ...

What Mr. Restall means is that the great explorer is still at the center of a swarm of unresolved polemics. Historians have not, in other words, laid him to unanimous rest. In fact, to describe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of a man with curly brown hair, wearing a large black hat On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher ...

Miami native Fernando Mendoza emotionally accepted the 2025 Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, college football’s highest individual award. Not only is he the Indiana Hoosiers’ first winner, but during ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to increased knowledge about gene regulation in human cells. How genes are turned on ...