Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

The second Trump Administration’s assault on the environment has been as damaging as expected, but other developments this ...

We've collected the history of the nude, from sculpture to oil paintings, and from cam-chat to Snapchat. But more importantly ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Human remains found at a Southcrest property prompted a multi-agency probe centering on 74-year-old Dwight Rhone, a person of ...

It was on December 9, 1987, that the first intifada began in Gaza after the news of the death of four Palestinians from an ...

As Syria celebrates liberation anniversary, the nation faces massive rebuilding challenges with over 170,000 people still ...