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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

To Villanova College last week went the Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born professor of organic chemistry at Notre Dame, to receive the Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his ...

Hundreds of Jewish and Russian war prisoners have lost their lives in the German monastery in Liebenau, Wuertemberg, where the Nazis have used them as guinea pigs for poison gas experiments, according ...