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 ...

Federal research funding doesn’t just advance science. It also helps to keep it safe. When the US government invests in research in the life sciences, it is also investing in the oversight and ...

Lab accidents have affected the outside world: Britain's health and safety agency concluded there was a &#8220strong probability” a leaking pipe at a British lab manufacturing vaccines for ...

It's been a year since a massive fire at a chemical plant near Atlanta produced a plume of toxic smoke that remained for days. Federal reports point to safety lapses inside the plant, but new ...

When a chemical fire caused widespread evacuations and sent a chlorine plume over a Black Atlanta suburb last year, it was not the first accident of its kind. That worries residents there. Pamela ...