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 ...

In December 2014, two monkeys in outdoor cages at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, about 40 miles north of New Orleans, became ill with Burkholderia pseudomallei, a deadly bacterium in 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 ...

(Photo illustration by Max-o-matic for The Washington Post; photos by Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images and Shepherd Zhou/FeatureChina/AP Images) In the summer of 2019, a mysterious accident occurred ...

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

In early March, medicinal chemist Keith Hornberger, writing on X(formerly Twitter), asked for tales of broken laboratory glassware. His son had just broken a beaker in his high school chemistry class.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The only U.S. facility allowed to research the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease experienced several accidents with the feared virus, the Bush administration acknowledged Friday. A ...