S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

Warnings about artificial intelligence often sound apocalyptic, yet the basic fears are as old as written stories about ...

The Greeks proposed the idea that humans are a form of artificial intelligence. Prometheus and Hephaestus use technology to ...

Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it's far older than scholars previously believed. The study, which was published in the ...

The controlled use of fire was a key part of the development of human technology with a range of uses that greatly expanded human cultural evolution. Although evidence at a number of archaeological ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Times obtained seven drafts of the LAFD’s after-action report on the Palisades fire. Deletions and revisions ...

An oil tanker caught fire after an overnight drone attack on Russia’s southern city of Rostov, as Ukraine expands the scope of strikes on energy assets. Emergency services are still working to ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

The LA Phil today confirmed program details for the first program of its 2025/26 Body and Sound festival—Prometheus with Esa-Pekka Salonen, from January 9–11, 2026 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Salonen ...

(KRON) — An SUV crashed into the Ace Hardware store in Redwood City on Monday evening, according to the Redwood City Fire Department (RCFD). The department received a call around 5:13 p.m. about a ...

RIGHT NOW ON WLKY. THIS IS BREAKING NEWS. BREAKING NEWS? TONIGHT, A CAR CRASHED INTO A GAS LINE, SPARKING A LARGE FIRE AT THE ROLLING HILLS APARTMENT COMPLEX IN EAST LOUISVILLE. FIRE CREWS ARE STILL ...

Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ago, ancient hominins may have had the skills to conjure flame, ...