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Oldest known fire-making site discovered

About 400,000 years ago, someone struck a piece of pyrite against a stone and started fire. It was a huge leap from just ...
"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton.
The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...
Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...
An international research team led by the British Museum has unearthed in a field in Suffolk the oldest known material ...
Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...
Gravestone slabs, cauldrons and other items recovered from the "Mortar Wreck" are now on display at the newly reopened Poole ...
The space agency said supernovas typically brighten rapidly over a period of several weeks before they slowly start to dim. This example, however, took months to ...
For decades, Mariah’s wasn’t just a restaurant in downtown Bowling Green—it was THE downtown restaurant, a place where ...
If a merger is approved, Willamette University and Pacific University would become the University of the Northwest ...
Know Which is the oldest school in India? St. George’s Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School, founded in 1715 in Chennai, is ...