New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI's CEO, has described using AI for guidance on life decisions as "something that the world ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

These symptoms make it all the more incredible that in 1999, radiologist Anna Bågenholm made a full recovery after her body temperature dropped to 56.7 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s the lowest body ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.