Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To many, the idea of going to the woods, cutting down a tree, crafting a simple longbow, and taking a deer with it is nuts—very ...

When most of us think “stickbow” we picture the long, D-shaped arc of a longbow. We also think it’s older than the recurve, but that might be a Robin Hood, western-bias thing; Eurasian warriors and ...

In the beginning, there were self bows - bows made from a single piece of wood - longbows and the improved but still primitive recurve bows to sustain millennia of wild-animal-eating humans and their ...

There are many forms that meditation can take in nature. Devotees of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, practice a slow saunter through the woods while soaking in its energy. Lovers of labyrinths lose ...

If pop culture is any indication, bows and arrows are the weapon of the future. Weird, right? But also delightful: The Hunger Games stars an arrow-slinging heroine. Hawkeye will defend the Earth using ...

Any time you flex a spring you cause it to store energy. If you take a coil spring and compress it, you have put energy in. If you release the compression, the spring will straighten back out and give ...

Centuries ago, archers were tasked with bringing home dinner. Nowadays, they bring home medals instead. Olympic archers are only allowed to use one type of projectile weapon—not the medieval long bow ...