With fire suppression, as generally practiced, forest managers are extinguishing all but the most ferocious of blazes, according to a new modeling study in Nature Communications. With climate change, ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...

Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice rooted in Taoism that entails arranging your space to align with the essential life force energy, known as chi, that permeates everything and everyone in our ...

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, ...