A lovely neighbor came to have tea with the CEO recently — non-management employees aren’t invited to tea (with or without crumpets). When our neighbor left she gave the firm a parting gift. It was a ...

The berries of the Deadly Nightshade plant, seen here, are thought to explain the behavior of a German monk who was found stumbling naked through a forest. Hallucinogenic berries, not religious ...

Q: Nightshade plants began growing in the same raised bed as tomatoes. Will the nightshade poison the soil in the raised bed? After we dig out the nightshade plants, do we need to replace the soil ...

They may look like tiny tomatoes or baby blueberries, but some of these tasty-looking fruits are actually poisonous black nightshade and bittersweet nightshade. Berry samples recently brought in to ...

A lot of living things on our planet have defenses they use in the wild to help them survive. For some plants, being poisonous may help keep them from becoming someone’s dinner. That’s what I found ...

Juliana K. Buckelew, David W. Monks, Greg D. Hoyt and Robert F. Walls, Jr. Studies were conducted to determine the effect of in-row eastern black nightshade establishment and removal timings in ...

Duane Mellor is a director, council member and spokesperson of the British Dietetic Association. Nenad Naumovski does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Two tiny tomatillo fossils have kicked the origin of nightshade plants back to the age of dinosaurs. The fossils, pressed into 52-million-year-old rock, suggest that the nightshade family originated ...