Once ‘Venom’ Was a Love Potion. Now It’s Toxic. The name chosen by the movie and comic-book supervillain hasn’t always conveyed the idea of potent harm.

Some toxins may be hazardous materials today but could evolve into powerful medications tomorrow.

These popular garden plants, many at their wicked best in fall, are toxic. "Gardening Can Be Murder" looks at gardens from the darker side of human nature.

Five people have died after drinking a poison potion in a Santeria ‘power’ ritual, police in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca said Wednesday. Iván García Alvarez, the Oaxaca state police ...

Archeologists have discovered another 2,000-year-old “elixir for immortality” that sheds light on the true cost of chasing ...

Five people have died after drinking a poison potion in a Santeria "power" ritual, police in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca said Wednesday. Iván García Alvarez, the Oaxaca state police ...

That same toxic plant is making its way across the U.S. to parks, pastures and backyard gardens. The poison hemlock (or Conium maculatum) was initially brought to the U.S. from Europe as a garden ...

A Wicklow-based illustrator and mother of three is helping children make connections with the nature surrounding them through enchanting potion kits, magical accessories, and nature-inspired art ...

About 50 people have died in Angola after being forced to drink an herbal potion to prove they were not sorcerers, police and local officials said Thursday.

A couple finds magical love in the Boston Lyric Opera’s “The Love Potion”; a housewife finds she has a taste for murder in “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” at the Metropolitan Opera.

But increasingly, fandoms' emotions have been curdling into a different kind of potion; something petty, entitled, conspiratorial, even abusive.