Scientists Create Giant Fire Tornadoes That Could Save Our Oceans

Scientists created 17-foot fire whirls that burn oil spills faster and cleaner than conventional methods, reducing soot by 40 ...
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Scientists Suggest That Igniting Oil Spills to Create Fire Tornadoes Might Actually Be Good for the Oceans

"Our goal is to harness the chaotic nature of fire whirls as a powerful, precise restoration tool, to protect coastlines, marine ecosystems and the environment as a whole." The post Scientists Suggest ...
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Archaeologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Humans Using Tools to Make Fire

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new discovery of baked sediments, artifacts, and pieces of firelighting pyrite in a UK claypit suggests that humans already had ...
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Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...
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A ‘Roomba for the forest’ could be SoCal’s next wildfire weapon

BurnBot is a huge, Zamboni-like vehicle that executes precisely controlled burns of flammable grass alongside buildings and roadways. It’s designed to create fire breaks — lines of charred land — that ...
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Over 400,000-year-old evidence of fire-making unearthed — thousands of years earlier than once thought

From warmth and protection to cooking meals, fire has been a crucial part of human evolution, and new findings could offer better insights into when our early ancestors first began stoking the flame.
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Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire

Fragments of iron pyrite, a rock that can be used with flint to make sparks, were found by a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain. (Jordan Mansfield | Courtesy Pathways to Ancient Britain ...