A new analysis suggests the onset of the next ice age could be expected in ... The study tracks the natural cycles of the ...

Differences between the fireplaces suggest a clever and intentional use. Whether it was used for cooking, heating, lighting, ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread so fast? New research may finally ...

Hominids have been using fire for at a million years — but scientists have found that humans were grilling down during the ...

The ‘Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms' on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward ...

But how did our Ice Age ancestors do it? There actually isn’t much in the archaeological record to help answer that question. “We know that fire was widespread before and after this period, but there ...