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Setting a fire. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Fire not only heated and cooked, but it may also have shaped the human body.

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New research suggests that more than a million years of human use of fire have exerted evolutionary pressure that has shaped our healing, inflammation, and immune mechanisms. The benefit: better recovery from minor burns. The potential cost: increased vulnerability
Prof. Ran Barkai holds a vertebra from an ancient elephant at the La Polderra site, Italy

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A cold flame on the space station. Screenshot, NASA

What happens to the flame on the space station?

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Combustion droplet on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

Strange flames on the space station

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Hell on earth - Google Earth special

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