Scientists in South Africa are making rhino horns radioactive to fight poaching
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Grand Egyptian Museum to display nearly 5,000 objects from King Tutankhamun
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South China Morning Post
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The Standard
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- The Standard
Scientists in South Africa are making rhino horns radioactive to fight poaching
Professor James Larkin drills a hole into a rhinos horn to inject with radioactive isotopes, at a rhino orphanage in Mokopane, South Africa, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)
