Humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, research suggests, after the discovery in the UK of ancient axes created using flames. The find, at a disused clay pit near Barnham, in west Suffolk, ...
The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...
More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...
From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...
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These articles describe how new forensic and DNA technologies have helped investigators resolve long-unsolved cases. Each ...
A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...
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A bear leans in the window of the Jeep Grand Cherokee while a woman holding a microphone asks the bear a question. The ...
There’s a really generous spirit to people in street art, public art, graffiti, where people are doing things that they want ...