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The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

If you're cleaning out your fireplace, don't throw away that wood ash. It contains many helpful nutrients that could benefit ...

After a cozy night by the fireplace, most people scoop out the ash and toss it without a second thought. But did you know ...

Only a few years ago, if you popped open a can of soda anywhere in the United States, the container you held more likely than ...

Medical science has come a long way in the last few decades. With technological advances and innovations, researchers and ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ago, ancient hominins may have had the skills to conjure flame, ...

LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is now ...