Humans have used bows and arrows to hunt for thousands of years, as depicted in this cave painting from the La Saltadora rock shelter in Spain. Credit: Album/Alamy
Traces of toxic plant compounds have been found on a handful of 60,000-year-old…
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Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60,000-Year-Old Arrows – The New York Times
- Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60,000-Year-Old Arrows The New York Times
- Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought Scientific American
- 60,000-year-old traces of world’s oldest arrow poison reveal…
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UIUC observes plants breathing in real time
07 Jan 2026
Confocal laser microscopy helps quantify processes underway at plants’ stomata.
Details of the process in which plants transfer gases through the pores on their leaves called stomata remain hard to study.
The anatomy of stomata…
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NASA telescope combines 100 maps of the universe into one: ‘every astronomer is going to find something of value here’
Half a year after first opening its eyes to the cosmos, NASA’s SPHEREx spacecraft has unveiled its first complete, all-sky mosaic of the universe.
The first of at least four such maps anticipated from SPHEREx, the new composite of more than 100…
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Lunar spacecraft exhaust could obscure clues to origins of life
A rendering of a lunar lander of the European Space Agency’s Argonaut program, which has its first mission to the moon scheduled for 2030. Methane released from spacecraft like these could contaminate icy regions of the moon’s poles that…
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A precise tool to halt viral protein production
Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens’ DNA and chop it up to disable and modify genes, heading off…
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Hubble’s Newest Discovery Isn’t a Star, It’s a Window Into the Dark Universe – SciTechDaily
- Hubble’s Newest Discovery Isn’t a Star, It’s a Window Into the Dark Universe SciTechDaily
- NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object NASA Science (.gov)
- The Galaxy That Never Was Universe Today
- New Type of Astronomical…
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Marine geoscientists link warming with ancient ocean 'salty blob' – Phys.org
- Marine geoscientists link warming with ancient ocean ‘salty blob’ Phys.org
- Melting Antarctic ice could cripple a deep ocean climate engine AOL.com
- Scientists stunned by discovery in world’s coldest ocean waters: ‘Signals from the past’ Yahoo
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Early human fossils found in Moroccan cave
Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us?
Three jawbones, including one from…
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‘Oxidative efficiency’ and 5 other crucial things all runners should know about carbs and marathon fuelling
If you want to have a terrible marathon experience, don’t fuel for it – and hit the wall the hard way. If you want to have a fantastic marathon experience, do consume plenty of carbohydrate before and during it – because that way, your body…
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