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 ...

explosion and the shattering glass don’t distress her. She simply clicks her computer mouse a few times and starts over. Ms. Ellison’s laboratory section relies on computer simulations, rather than on ...

What makes this discovery so refreshingly chemical? The first – perhaps obvious – requirement is for the target of discovery ...

Researchers have created a robotic system that can follow verbal cues and perform experiments. Lab scientists spend much of their time doing laborious and repetitive tasks, be it pipetting liquid ...

A student in an Advanced Placement biology class might dissect a fetal pig to study internal organs and the skeleton. But can a student get the same level of experience from a virtual dissection ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

Science is a process of discovery. In the laboratory, students conduct experiments, solve problems, and use the scientific method. Collectively, a laboratory experience should be experiential with ...

Developing cleaner chemical processes often involves sophisticated flow-chemistry equipment that is not available in many economically developing countries. For reactions where it is the data that are ...

Corrected: This story misidentifies the alternative name for methanol. The liquid is also called methyl alcohol. The lab demonstration was going smoothly, as it had earlier in the day, until methyl ...

OROVILLE — A glass beaker failure in a Butte College chemistry laboratory caused an accident Thursday around 4 p.m., according to Butte College Interim Public Relations Officer Christian Gutierrez.

A DeKalb County high school student was rushed to the hospital Tuesday morning after being burned during a chemistry experiment in class, district officials said. The incident occurred in a science ...