Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old. By Carl Zimmer Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools.

The Edelrid Rage ice axe got a much-awaited makeover after more than a decade on European shelves. I was keen to try the new ...

The Wenquan Paleolithic site in Ruzhou, Central China's Henan Province, has yielded a collection of Acheulean tools, ...

The tool is a combination of a fire axe and an adze (or hoe), allowing firefighters to chop or dig with the flip of a wrist. Its design has remained largely unchanged since its creation over 100 ...