For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...

A patient recently came into our dermatology clinic with a rash and a story similar to many others. He had been camping with friends a few days earlier and helped carry some logs to stoke the fire.

When you're outside in the summer, gardening, hiking, or playing with your pets, the last thing you want is poison ivy. The reason why you become itchy and develop a rash hours later is because of a ...

An international team of scientists announced their recent discovery of a colorful new poison frog in a remote place deep in the Amazon rainforest. Ranitomeya aetherea, a new poison frog species ...

Just before visitors leave “The Power of Poison,” a traveling exhibition from the American Museum of Natural History on view at the Arizona Science Center through Aug. 24, Zoë, a Gila monster on loan ...

A nationally known writer about poison says the public deserves more scientific information. Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and director of the Knight Science Journalism program ...

IT’S been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the communist nation’s horror history of science lives on. We unearth five of the most terrifying experiments conducted under ...