Neanderthals may have used birch tar as more than just glue; it could have helped them ward off infection and even insect ...

Scientists say Neanderthals probably used birch tar for several purposes, including treating wounds. The post Neanderthals ...

Tar is a common file format for archives in Linux- and Unix-based operating systems. These types of files are typically used to back up files and directories or to transfer files and programs over a ...

A new study explores whether birch tar, long associated with Neanderthal toolmaking, may have served another purpose as well.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In a YouTube video posted Monday, Leonardo DiCaprio challenged Canadian Prime Minister Stephan Harper to the Ice Bucket Challenge. While helping to ...

I have a 2 Gig tar file, "myfile.tar", that normally takes about 2 minutes to completely untar all of it's contents. However, in a seperate scenario, if I try to extract just one file from "myfile.tar ...

Georgetown University is set to divest from companies whose primary business involves the extraction of tar sands, according to a June 7 news release from the university. At the June meeting of the ...