New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Waymo robotaxis get stranded when a passenger leaves the door open. Tow truck operators can get paid $22 to close a door and set them free again.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

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The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal ...

Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species, or change over time due to random mutations and environmental shifts. A typical mammalian species can be expected to exist for a ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery moves our understanding of when humans started making fire back by 350,000 ...

These symptoms make it all the more incredible that in 1999, radiologist Anna Bågenholm made a full recovery after her body temperature dropped to 56.7 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s the lowest body ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.