Category: 7. Science

The oldest evidence for the use of arrow poison globally was long thought to come from Egypt, dating to 4,000 years ago. It was a black, toxic residue on bone arrowheads from a tomb at the Naga ed Der archaeological site.

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RIYADH: The Royal Commission for AlUla announced on Thursday the discovery of rare horseshoe crab fossils estimated to be 465 million years old.

Work is being carried out to study and characterize the fossils, which have not yet been…

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Ancient humans used poisoned arrowheads to hunt prey 60,000 years ago, archeologists discovered.

Traces of plant toxins were found on quartz Stone Age arrowheads in South Africa, the oldest known example, suggesting paleolithic hunters had more…

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NASA has released an image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by one of its spacecraft on its way to Jupiter.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft launched in October 2024 and is on its way to study Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons.