The most remarkable thing I ever witnessed was this: a woman sitting on the ground under a tree, her father and husband behind her. Another man cleans a razor blade and several homemade metal ...

A Bronze Age skull discovered on the banks of the Thames may have belonged to one of the first Londoners to have major head surgery, archaeologists said yesterday. They were intrigued by an irregular ...

Feedback wondered under what circumstances antiseptic cream could get on the brain (21 October). That’s easy: during a trepanning operation. Obviously, this is usually done in hospitals by ...