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Polonium’s chemical properties made it the ideal secret weapon for the assassins of Alexander Litvinenko.
It’s not just Australia’s animals that can be deadly, there are plenty of dangerous plants too.
News that a leading manufacturer will cease making a well-known antivenom is not actually new.
Sodium cyanide has a particularly unpleasant reputation but if officials act fast they should be able to limit its damaging effects.
It’s the size of a fingernail but could do you some serious damage – numbness, incontinence, and muscular paralysis.
There’s much that Perepilichny could have learned from Arthur Conan Doyle, and him in turn from an ancient king called Mithradates.
Serious poisoning by plants is very rare in the UK so the death of a gardener in Hampshire after brushing against a deadly flower was extremely unusual. Despite the British countryside’s genteel reputation…
With the announcement of an inquiry into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, talk of poisons is back in the news. There are many articles with lists of the most poisonous substances, which are often gathered…
The World Health Organization estimates that one in every 12 deaths worldwide is due to chemical exposure, sometimes acute but mostly chronic. This eclipses the annual death tolls from malaria, car crashes…
A new type of water filter being developed at the University of South Australia could potentially clean deadly arsenic out…
The cane toad’s highly toxic poison could ultimately prove the most effective weapon against the invasive species itself, according to a team of researchers who say the poison is an effective bait for…
Consider two furry Australian animals: the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus). Both icons in their own way, both live only in Australia and both were…
A species of African rat makes its own poison by gnawing on a toxic tree and smearing the toxic saliva on to hair on its…
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