A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have uncovered the earliest known evidence of humans deliberately making ...

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

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key ...

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 ...

Solar photovoltaics have great promise for a low-carbon future but remain expensive relative to other technologies. Greatly increased penetration of photovoltaics into global energy markets requires ...

Fool’s gold, also called pyrite or iron sulfide, can be unearthed just about anywhere, from the hills of California to the villages of Yunnan Province in China. But instead of digging pyrite up, ...

Jamie Lee Donnelly and Lauren Devers, organisers of a protest about pyrite-affected homes in Ballina, Co. Mayo. Thousands of people whose pyrite-contaminated homes are crumbling around them are set to ...