As you know, in fashion, one day you're in and the next day your skin is falling off and your lungs are melting.

Welcome back to SciShow Talk Show where Hank talks to interesting people about interesting things! This week, Hank discusses a new lichen discovery with researcher Toby Spribille.

Scientists believe that your taste receptors are meant for taste, but how do they explain the taste receptors on your lungs?

A woman in rags emerged from a swamp flanked by seven giant scorpions and approached a magnificent mansion to beg for food. But the mistress of the house took one look at her grimy clothes and unusual companions and slammed the door in...

There are natural poisons that lurk in bacteria, plants, and fungi pretty much everywhere, and they're there for good reasons (according to the organisms that produce them) - but what is it about their chemical make up that makes them so...

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Poisoning has always been a popular method of getting rid of one’s enemies, but is there actually a “perfect” poison capable of being completely undetectable? Here are 6 of the poisons that have confounded doctors throughout...

You may know it as a miracle powder or an ice cream flavor, but activated charcoal can do some pretty cool stuff.

Houseplants can be great for your mental health, but eating some of them can be far worse for your bodily health than you might think.

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Have you heard the scary news reports of how people are going to taint kids' candy with pot now that it's getting more legal? There's no evidence for that. There's also no evidence that strangers poison kids' Halloween candy in general....

Plenty of frogs can be poisonous, but Greening’s frog and Bruno’s casque-headed frog use bony spines on their snouts to break the skin of would-be predators and introduce toxins into their attacker’s bloodstream. This makes them the...

This episode is not for the faint of heart. Coyote has claimed for years that he’s immune to poison ivy—but that’s about to be put to the ultimate test. Joined by wildlife expert, Ray Tiller (who, spoiler alert, breaks out from even a...

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Would you know what to do if someone ingested poison? Equally important, would you know what not to do?

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