The hydrothermal vents far beneath the Pacific Ocean erupt with scorching fluids loaded with chemicals that could kill most ...

In Nebraska, along the Platte River, it’s uranium. In Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, it’s arsenic. In California, boron. And in the Texas Panhandle, lithium. Throughout the nation, metals and ...

Last week I described how and why mercury and chromium are toxic, and this week I will focus on two other noto rious elements: arsenic and lead. Arsenic is a metal loid, which means it has the ...

There's a long, long history of biologists one-upping each other with bizarre new forms of life, but scientists have never discovered something quite like GFAJ-1, an arsenic-loving bacterium whose ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially announced a multi-year plan to prioritize limiting toxic elements in foods commonly eaten by babies and young children. In recent ...

Cooking rice like pasta, with lots of water that's drained, can cut down arsenic levels by over 50 percent. Choosing white ...

In Nebraska, along the Platte River, it's uranium. In Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, it's arsenic. In California, boron. And in the Texas Panhandle, lithium. Throughout the nation, metals and ...