It hasn't taken long for savvy Minecraft players to work out how to use the fresh close-range weapon as a fully-fledged siege ...

Chickens in Minecraft will regularly drop eggs, which can be thrown in order to hatch more chickens. The automatic farm works ...

Second grade students from McKean, Potter and Tioga counties sent us their Letters to Santa, which are published here today for your enjoyment.

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 ...

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Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery moves our... Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest ...

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 ...

LONDON – Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is now ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is now southern England, a group of Neandertals struck chunks of iron pyrite against flint to create sparks, ...