This week's element is thallium, which goes by the symbol Tl and the atomic number, 81. Thallium was discovered in 1861 by spectroscopy and named by British chemist Sir William Crookes. Its name comes ...

A 22-year-old former Lehigh University student will face charges that he tried to poison his roommate using thallium and other chemicals, Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli announced ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Tonight, we're hearing from the mother of the 41-year-old man who is critically ill with large amounts of thallium in his system. The naturally-occurring metal is ...

LONDON — Doctors treating former Russian spy and fierce Kremlin critic Col. Alexander Litvinenko said today that test results showed it was unlikely he had been poisoned by the toxic metal thallium ...

MOSCOW – The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday confirmed that two American women have been hospitalized in Moscow for possible thallium poisoning. The spokesman identified the women as Marina Kovalevsky and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man has been arrested for intentionally poisoning his St. Cloud roommate with the toxic heavy metal thallium, leading to his ...

EX-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury last year. The pair were “targeted specifically” when they were dosed by a rare and deadly nerve agent, ...

MONROE — In April 1995, two college undergraduates in China posted a message on the internet: "Hi. This is Peking University … A young 21-year old student has become very sick and is dying … Doctors ...

There’s a right way and a wrong way to poison your husband, at least if your primary goal is to get away with it. The right way involves stealth and subterfuge—praising him to his face while dosing ...

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 ...

A former chemistry major at Lehigh University, who allegedly vandalized his longtime roommate's property with racist graffiti, was charged with attempted homicide Thursday after he also allegedly ...