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Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists unique insights into ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

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Scientists who built the first synthetic eukaryotic genome share hard-won lessons that could accelerate engineering of crops, ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...