As Donald Trump’s GOP grows more and more fanatically xenophobic and rabidly anti-socialist, it’s worth examining how the ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

We’ve seen some stunning all-action midfielders over the years, players who protected the defense, drove the team forward and ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

A patch of scorched earth in eastern England is forcing scientists to rethink one of the most important turning points in ...

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 ...

The heartwarming moment a woman was surprised with an early four-legged Christmas present has delighted internet viewers, generating over 61 million views on TikTok. TikTok user @erinwithan.e shared a ...

A man who was released from prison early after racking up good behavior credits following his conviction for fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Kentucky boy during a 2015 home invasion was arrested weeks ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

Billy Joel famously sang, we didn't start the fire - it was always burning since the world's been turning. But that's not entirely true. Humans do start fires to cook, to heat, to gather around.

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?