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Scientists find scorched bones deep inside South African cave, suggesting early humans tended fire nearly 1.8 million years ago

5 news sources are covering this Science story right now — PULSE is tracking how fast it spreads.

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The brief

"Scientists find scorched bones deep inside South African cave, suggesting early humans tended fire nearly 1.8 million years ago" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 5 articles from 5 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.

Outlets currently covering the story include Discover Magazine, New York Post, Interesting Engineering and IFLScience. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.

This brief was generated by PULSE's extractive engine from coverage metadata only. The latest headlines from every source are listed below; the velocity chart shows how the story is developing in real time.

Generated by PULSE's extractive engine from coverage metadata. Updated .

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Why is "Scientists find scorched bones deep inside South African cave, suggesting early " trending?

Because 5 independent news sources published 5 articles about it in a short window — a coverage burst PULSE classifies as a trend.

How does PULSE measure this trend?

PULSE scores velocity from the rate of new articles weighted by source diversity, snapshotted hourly. The full method is public on our methodology page.

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Coverage (5)

Topics

Scientists South African

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