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A cave in Africa seems to host the oldest known traces of humans using fire. Burnt remnants of animal bones hint that groups of Homo erectus used fires here as long as 1.8 million years ago.

The site is known as Wonderwerk Cave...

While John Harvey was working as a veterinarian in Devon, England, his clinic looked for ways to lower its carbon footprint. They installed energy-efficient light bulbs. This got Harvey thinking: What about the animals? How much did...

Is it a good idea to use artificial intelligence (AI) for math help? Yes — and no. That’s based on the results of a new survey. AI can be a great tutor, it finds, but only if you use it in certain ways.

The dat...

Kids learn in grade school that honeybees “create” a new queen bee by feeding a larva royal jelly. A new study find that the young bee’s diet may be only part of what crowns her queen. The chemical makeup of a small “room” in the hive where she grows up also appears to...

The arm and shoulder bones of a gliding dinosaur might have just revealed the solution to a gruesome whodunit.

Since 2002, researchers have unearthed more than 100 prehistoric bird remains in the Changma Basin. It’s a fossil bed in northwestern China. ...