Forget flowers: These ancient plants attract pollinators by getting hot

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...
ZME Science

Neanderthals Were Starting Fires 400,000 Years Ago and Probably Taught Homo Sapiens Too

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.

Scientists Probed a Medieval Alchemist’s Artifacts—and Found an Element That Changes History

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

'Artificial intelligence' myths have existed for centuries—from the ancient Greeks to a Pope's chatbot

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th ...
Ancient Origins

UK Discovery Rewrites History of Human Fire-Making

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...