Firefighters are investigating the Minneapolis’s second fire fatality of the year after a man died in a house fire Saturday afternoon.

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, a discovery that pushes one of our species’ defining skills far deeper ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have ...

The earliest known evidence of human fire-making has been discovered in the UK dating back over 400,000, in a new groundbreaking discovery. Fire-cracked flint, hand axes and heated sediments have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been a longstanding question: when did we first learn how to light a fire? Archaeologists in the UK believe they’re much ...

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 ...

Fragments of iron pyrite, a rock that can be used with flint to make sparks, were found by a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain. (Jordan Mansfield | Courtesy Pathways to Ancient Britain ...