Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...

A science experiment gone wrong has sent two Georgia high school students to the hospital, school officials say. The incident happened on Thursday Dec. 7 at Marietta High School in Marietta, about 20 ...

America’s legacy media suffered a credibility crisis by prematurely dismissing the COVID lab leak theory from the onset of the pandemic and a new book puts a spotlight on why so many people wanted to ...

MARIETTA, Ga. — Two high school students were sent to the hospital after suffering chemical burns earlier this week, according to officials. According to Marietta City Schools, the incident happened ...

If a chemist has never been in a lab accident, he has been lucky. Of course, luck is more likely to come to those whose mentors have learned from bad experiences and to those who have taken preventive ...

Re Judith Giordan’s remarks on trusting science in C&EN’s April 1, 2024, issue (page 33): A lot of trust derives from communicating in a manner that renders the subject understandable in the context ...

Myriam Vidal Valero is a freelance journalist from Mexico. In August 2016, Margaret Braasch-Turi began her graduate studies in the department of chemistry at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — All 16 workers exposed to radiation at the Idaho National Laboratory were allowed to go home following the incident, which officials Wednesday said likely resulted from decades-old ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—More than 120 Mississippi State faculty, staff and students listened to advice from the editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals Thursday [April 6]. Holden Thorp is a ...

This exclusive article is adapted from former USA TODAY investigative reporter Alison Young’s forthcoming book "Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk," which will be released ...