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Our mastery of fire is one of the biggest things that sets humans apart from animals. We’ve used it to cook our food, temper our tools, warm our bodies, and ward off predators. It’s not overstating things to say it’s fueled our evolution, but has our...

Next month, the blood moon will show its copper-toned face to about a third of the world, including North America.
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This spooky nickname refers to a total lunar eclipse, when the Earth travels directly between the sun and moon. That cosmic alignment is visible around every 2.5 years from a given spot on our planet, and the next one will arrive on March 3....

There are monsters lurking in the rivers of southern Japan—giant salamanders that can grow up to five feet long. Second only to their Chinese cousins, these wet-skinned leviathans are some of the largest amphibians in the world. New research into their...

We know that other great apes can do a lot of human-like things. Since Jane Goodall’s pioneering studies of chimpanzees, ethologists have amassed decades of observations of both wild and captive great apes acting in many ways like people. We know that...