Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was on an even playing field, the history of warfare is one defined by technological ...

To support their findings, the researchers also analysed arrows collected in the 1770s by Swedish naturalist Carl Peter ...