Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many ...

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.

He reminds us that the internet’s decline wasn’t inevitable—it was policy-driven. Antitrust law atrophied. Venture capital rewarded growth over governance. Where Doctorow rages from the barricades, Wu ...

Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years earlier than previously thought. Stone tools unearthed in Kenya reveal that hominins ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

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

Are people willing to believe in AI because it taps into myths that are deeply ingrained in their imaginations?

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...