The Ecology and Environment Department of Hunan in Central China issued on Tuesday a notice on the emergency treatment of abnormal thallium concentrations in the Chenzhou-Leiyang section of the ...

Human activities account for 20% to more than 60% of toxic thallium entering the Baltic Sea over the past eight decades, according to new research. Currently, the amount of thallium, which is ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science story that comes our way. So this year, we're running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one story that fell through ...

Thallium, the substance which has poisoned ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, is a highly-toxic heavy metal. Although it used to be commonly found in rat poisons and insecticides, since the ...

The first sign that something was wrong was numbness in his feet. Then things got rapidly and severely worse. It was August 2012, and soon, a chemistry PhD student in the UK would be fighting for his ...

An agricultural scientist used Thallium, known as the "poisoner's poison," to kill her husband and four in-laws in Maharashtra. Thallium is a soft, heavy metal that is tasteless and odorless, making ...

On January 14th, 2011, a 39-year-old computer engineer was admitted to Princeton University Hospital in New Jersey with nagging, flu-like symptoms. The man was nauseated, suffering from severe joint ...

Nagpur: The supplier in Telangana, who delivered the lethal poison thallium, is now on the Gadchiroli police radar. The deadly chemical, also known globally known as poisoner’s poison, was delivered ...

Acres of rice fields await harvest in Mahagaon in Aheri taluka in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. In the middle of this peaceful landscape lies a patch of land that has been cleared. It contains ...