The science experiment that caused a flash fire, injuring 17 children and a teacher at Merrol Hyde Magnet School on Wednesday was not a surprise to chemical safety experts across the country. They ...

Jessica A. Martin, Ph.D. Product Manager, Online Learning & Training, ACS Publications Jessica is a Product Manager with ACS Publications focused developing lab safety courses in the online learning ...

Chemistry is a laboratory science and can be most effectively taught by including robust hands-on laboratory experiences for students at both the middle and high school levels. This perspective ...

A Northern Virginia school district says a high school teacher violated safety protocols during an open-flame chemistry lab demonstration that injured the teacher and five students last year. Fairfax ...

Three students and a teacher were treated for burns after a chemistry lab fire Oct. 12 at Dinwiddie High School in Virginia. One of the students was hospitalized for 2 weeks. The incident involved a ...

More than a dozen students at a high school in a Nashville, Tennessee, suburb were injured along with their teacher when a science experiment turned into a chemical fire, sending nine people to the ...