A chemical reaction caught fire Wednesday during a lab experiment at the University of Maryland, College Park, campus police said.Officials evacuated the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building. The ...

Editor’s note: The Lab Report is a weekly series in The Badger Herald’s print edition where we take a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. Plastic, one ...

A hot gas dissociates very quickly, on the order of microseconds. One might think we could neglect the speed of dissociation, then, and model the gas in an equilibrium state. However, many things ...

Chemists show how PTFE - aka Teflon - in standard lab stir bars affects a chemical reaction used to reduce nanotubes, skewing the results. The stirrers that mix cream into your coffee probably don't ...

Last September, a chemical fire in Conyers, Georgia, sent a toxic cloud over the area. A Georgia Public Broadcasting podcast ...

ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. — The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released an update into the investigation of the chemical reaction and toxic gas release that caused a massive fire ...

Like this puzzle, chemical safety has several pieces that together create the whole picture for working with chemicals in a safe manner. At the center of this puzzle is you, the employee or student.

When you get right down to the atomic scale, things happen much faster than we’re used to. That makes it hard to actually see what happens during chemical reactions, so researchers at Harvard have ...

Kate McKnelly expects to finish up her PhD this summer, but she isn’t allowed to set foot in her laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. That’s because she is effectively allergic to the ...