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 ...

Laboratories are home to a wide variety of flammable and combustible liquids—making fire, chemical, and thermal burns relatively common accidents in this environment. For instance, in 2008, a research ...

The physics department follows the University Safety Plan. All undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff who work in a lab should be familiar with the Safety Plan and the ...

Many of Bowdoin's physics courses, including the introductory physics sequence and some upper-level classes, utilize laboratories as valuable learning spaces. While labs consistently prove effective ...

Baltimore County Public Schools audits released earlier this month found that work orders for safety-related equipment in science labs are not resolved promptly enough and decision files for ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that it has hired a permanent top official to oversee laboratory safety at the agency, more than a year after a string of its ...

Science classrooms with scientific equipment and supplies should not be used for non-science courses or activities unless the science materials can be stored in a secured area. Laboratory activities ...

A former employee of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has accused the research facility of forgoing over 14 years of important safety inspections for “many” of the lab’s pressure systems and ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is the U.S. national laboratory with the mission to develop the scientific foundation for the creation of fusion energy, the power source of the sun and the ...