A U.S. Army researcher has scored a patent for inventing a new tool for training dogs to detect chemical compounds....
Over the past year the OPCW has dealt with multiple information leaks, all related to its investigation into the chemical attack on Douma, Syria in April...
Northwestern University scientists have successfully combined a nanomaterial effective at destroying toxic nerve agents with textile fibers. This new composite material one day could be integrated...
Nearly half a century after the war’s end, most of the people in the southern Vietnamese city of Bien Hoa are disabled, a result of exposure...
The May 3, 2019 explosion at AB Specialty Silicones in Waukegan, which killed four workers and severely injured another, should not have happened, federal officials said...
New reports have emerged from the Syrian civil war that banned chemical weapons are being used in Aleppo, a city on the edge of the last...
A cluster of industrial chemicals known by the shorthand term “PFAS” has infiltrated the far reaches of our planet with significance that scientists are only beginning...
Large quantities of the synthetic drug fentanyl flow into the country at ports of entry along the Southwest border, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. As this...
Created by Congress in 2006, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) authorizes DHS to determine whether chemical facilities present “a high level of security risk” because...
SAFE-Europe, the Lead partner of the TRANSnational TUNnel operational CBRN risk mitigation (TRANSTUN) consortium, invited project partners to a two-day official kick-off meeting in Lyon, France...
FOI, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, has produced new data for calculating how toxic gases disperse through the air. Toxic gas clouds, such as from a...
Science stinks. So thought Megan Harries as she measured drops of putrescine and cadaverine — the chemicals that give decomposing corpses their distinctive, terrible odor —...
Hong Kong’s gas-choked summer of turmoil is the latest chapter in a century-long story of commercial exploitation of a surprisingly poorly understood weapon. Spent cartridges of...
Block MEMS, a leading developer of Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) based infrared detection systems, has been awarded a $3.5M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Agency...
The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) will officially start chemical agent destruction operations this summer, a long-awaited milestone since construction on the facility began...
