This past semester, K-State relaunched the nuclear engineering major that it discontinued in 1996. It has already attracted ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Ky. — Almar Atlason kept firing, Miami coach Travis Steele kept preaching poise, and the unbeaten RedHawks kept answering every Eastern Kentucky push. Atlason scored 19 points on 8-for-9 ...

Hawaii County Fire Chief Kazuo Todd died unexpectedly Sunday morning from natural causes, county officials announced. He was 45. Hawaii island Mayor Kimo Alameda said Todd was a longtime public ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

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, ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. An artist’s ...

SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa (KTIV) - Sergeant Bluff Fire and Rescue is partnering with Sergeant Bluff-Luton Community Schools for its own Fire Science Academy program next semester for the first time. The ...

Parts of the Lassen Volcanic National Park in California’s Cascade Range resemble the gateway to a hellish underworld, with pools of boiling water and bubbling mud where almost nothing can live, due ...