There’s a long-standing rumor about the red-and-green flowers traditionally associated with Christmas being deadly if eaten. Janna Day, a nurse and the education and outreach manager at the Iowa ...

Poinsettias are mildly toxic to cats and dogs, causing skin irritation from the plant's sap or stomach upset if ingested. Claims that poinsettias can cause serious health problems or death greatly ...

The fourth floor of the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is designed for reverence — fossils, minerals, evidence of deep time. The building trains you to think in epochs and extinction events, ...

There are shoppers who have their holiday gifts picked out, wrapped and ready to go in September... and then there are the rest of us. That's where this gift guide comes in—it's perfect for ...

After the first rains of the year, two Decembers ago, Noe and his brothers went hiking in the hills of Santa Rosa and found some mushrooms. They fried them up that evening and kicked back a few beers.

You know the holidays are upon us when you start seeing the bright red leaves of live poinsettia plants on store shelves and in festive displays. This striking plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima) is ...

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