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Happy New Year! I hope you had a lovely break over the Christmas period.Winter always puts me in mind of cosy fireplaces – but when did humans first learn how to create fire for themselves, rather than relying on embers from lightning strikes and wildfires? New evidence from Barnham in Suffolk has pushed this story back hundreds of thousands of years further than previously thought. Our cover feature explores this exciting discovery, and the revolutionary biological, technological, and so