Plants make substances called alkaloids to protect themselves, and humans have long taken advantage of these chemicals, using ...

The oldest direct evidence of humans using poisoned arrows was in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago. Bone arrow ...

Scientists have shown how plants produce powerful natural chemicals that could help in the production of new medicines in ...

The team analyzed 10 arrowheads, dated to 60,000 years ago, that were found in excavated soil layers from the Umhlatuzana ...

A research team reports that advances in protein design—especially when combined with artificial intelligence—are rapidly ...

Scientists are testing the ancient herb borage to see which healing claims hold up and where modern evidence still falls ...

A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years.

Researchers have found traces of what appears to be plant-derived poison on tiny stone arrowheads from South Africa dated to ...

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

Earliest evidence of poisoned arrows offers new insights into the advanced technology and strategic thinking of prehistoric ...