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Scientists Uncover What Kept Humanity’s First Campfires Burning 780,000 Years Ago

Gesher Benot Ya’aqov Excavation SiteRare charcoal fragments from an ancient lakeshore campsite are offering new clues about fire use, resource management, and the environmental knowledge of some of humanity’s earliest fire users. Long before cities, farms, or written language existed, some of humanity’s ancestors had already discovered a resource that would transform the course of human evolution: fire. But [...]

Did A Moon-Size Planet Grow Fast and Die Young in the Early Solar System?

12 June 2026 at 14:05

A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert could be a fragment of a Moon-size body that met a violent end in the earliest days of the solar system.

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