ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. — A fire at a Rockdale County bio lab facility touched off dangerous vapors and a strong odor in the air that forced emergency crews to close Interstate 20 for six hours on Monday ...

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 ...

Explosive chemistry doesn’t always mean danger. In many cases, it simply refers to reactions that produce dramatic visual ...

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 ...

Acid burned two people in a University of Maryland laboratory on Monday, according to Prince George's Fire spokesperson Mark Brady. The Prince George's County Fire Department responded to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Remember how much fun your high school chemistry class was? Neither do we. But that may be because there weren’t enough explosions. Well, nowadays, the internet can fix that problem in a jiffy—or ...

Scientists at Harvard have slowed a chemical reaction to a million times longer than usual using near-absolute-zero temperatures. Researchers continue to develop new and novel ways to manipulate ...