As the Texas A&M incidents show, universities don’t always report accidents that occur in their labs, at least not right away. Researchers there did not report that a laboratory worker had been ...

Tuberculosis bacteria - one of the dangerous bugs that is studied in labs - KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Laboratory leaks and accidents have risen 50 per cent in Britain since Covid-19 emerged, ...

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 ...

University of Texas at Austin officials failed to report 10 laboratory accidents to federal authorities over the past seven years, the Associated Press reported. In five of the incidents, laboratory ...

Stories abound about scientists who do something stupid in a lab and stumble on a discovery. For example, there was the time ...

LIVERMORE — A U.S. Energy Department report found that sloppy procedures involving radioactive plutonium worsened a series of accidents that contaminated employees at Lawrence Livermore National ...

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 ...

Inadequate hurricane preparation and the failure to implement baseline process safety systems were among key shortcomings that led to a dangerous incident at a Louisiana chemical plant, according to a ...