Birch tar was among the most useful materials available to prehistoric humans and was primarily used as a glue to bind stone blades onto wooden handles or arrowheads onto shafts. However, we now have ...

Neanderthals probably used birch tar for multiple functions, including treating their wounds, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by a team of researchers led by Tjaark ...

Neanderthals may have used birch tar as more than just glue; it could have helped them ward off infection and even insect bites.

Around the world, algorithms are increasingly being asked to do something once reserved for human judgment: help decide who should remain free and who should be deprived of liberty. In recent years, ...

Researchers have found that birch tar produced using methods available to Neanderthals carries measurable antibacterial ...

A blood pressure program adopted across the University of California's six academic medical centers has effectively lowered hypertension and prevented serious disease or death for thousands of ...