While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, ...

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 ...

As US teachers discover more and more legacy chemicals in schools, funding for cleanup is hard to find. Educators, nonprofits ...

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Stories abound about scientists who do something stupid in a lab and stumble on a discovery. For example, there was the time a scientist was told to test a chemical, and he misheard that as “taste” ...

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 ...

A lab accident marks the first case of Zika infection through a needle stick. — -- A female researcher was accidentally infected with the Zika virus during a laboratory experiment at the ...

A 15-year-old student and teacher sustained burns when a fire erupted during a chemistry experiment at Brookline High School’s summer program on July 3. The incident highlights the need for laboratory ...