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 ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — The Arizona Science Center is showing the relationship between poison and nature at its newest exhibition, ‘The Power of Poison.’ The Power of Poison: Inside the Arizona Science Center’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Rats thrive around humans, for good reason: They feed off crops and garbage and readily adapt to many settings, from farms to the world’s ...