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Before now, the earliest evidence of the use of fire by hominids was from the same cave — the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa ...

Though solar cells, which convert sunlight to electricity, date to decades earlier, scientists at Bell Laboratories announce the first practical silicon solar ...

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