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UK gardeners are being warned: rhubarb leaves are poisonous and can harm children and pets – are you handling your spring ...

While the long, reddish stalks of a rhubarb plant are absolutely safe to eat and can be eaten raw, gardeners are warned to ...

Researchers have developed a technique that allows them to carve complex three dimensional nanodevices directly from single crystals. To demonstrate its power, they sculpted microscopic helices from a ...

That problem (aka "spinach teeth") is common for people who consume the leafy green. And it turns out there's a scientific reason behind it: Oxalates. Oxalates are types of salts of oxalic acid, and ...

Reptiles produce crystal "pee," which, in humans, would cause gout or kidney stones. But this seems to be working out great for them. Reading time 3 minutes The science of poop has yielded some ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Unless you’ve owned reptiles, you might not know that many of them “pee” crystals. Researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Chemical Society investigated the solid urine of more than 20 ...

Reptiles don’t urinate like humans do; instead, they pass these solid “urates” (left). Researchers found that urates consist of tiny microspheres composed primarily of uric acid (right). Unless you’ve ...