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Police have issued a warning after a poisonous plant washed up on shore in Scotland. Hemlock root, also known as Dead Man's Fingers, has washed up on beaches in Argyll and Bute and recently in Cumbria ...

A plant that can kill humans within hours has washed up on a UK beach, prompting a coastguard to warn 'please do not touch' it. Hemlock water dropwort - also known as Dead Man's Fingers - was spotted ...

Plant-based meat was once a growth market. In its glory days in the early 2020s, plant-based substitutes were fast moving from niche, pursued by a coterie of vegetarians and vegans who missed meat, to ...

Brunch’s best bubbles came from an underdog — here’s why it beat the rest. Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. Mimosas are ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Last December, Ravyn Lenae stood in the street and pointed her phone at herself to film a TikTok set to her song ...

Dropped in the middle of our modern, noisy musical landscape, Ravyn Lenae’s “Love Me Not” achieved the impossible — breaking through by sounding like nothing else on the charts. The swoony, melodic ...

I have a skin condition where my mouth and chin are covered in painful bleeding sores. Recently, I’ve run out of medication to treat it, and for the first time in my two-year relationship, my ...

The explosion occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems in McEwen. A "devastating" blast at a Tennessee explosives manufacturing plant on Friday is believed to have left 16 people dead, authorities ...

The Venus flytrap possesses sensory hairs that detect prey via touch stimuli. Bending of the sensory hair trigger Ca 2+ and electrical signals that propagate to the leaf blade. Saitama, Japan: Plants ...