Perhaps the worst laboratory accident in recent memory occurred in 1996, when Karen Wetterhahn, a chemistry professor at Dartmouth, spilled a couple of drops of dimethylmercury on her glove. Thinking ...

In another universe, you could be reading an article celebrating Karen Wetterhahn’s retirement from Dartmouth College. She would be 73. A chemist, Wetterhahn started her career at Dartmouth in 1976, ...

A warning sign at a chemical weapons disposal facility at GEKA in Munster, Germany, in 2013 (used here as stock photo). Photo: Philipp Guelland/AFP (Getty Images) A federal court has sentenced a ...

What happens when a scientist makes a minor mistake? This story of one such scientist spilling two drops of mercury on her hand is well known by toxicologists, but perhaps you've never heard the ...

One educator and researcher suffered a terrifying demise from just a tiny droplet, no bigger than a raindrop, of one substance that made contact with her skin. Serving as a research chemist at ...

Karen Wetterhahn was a rising star and chemistry researcher at Dartmouth studying how the heavy metal chromium damages DNA and causes cancer, but she died in 1997 after an accidental exposure to ...

One teacher and scientist experienced a horrifying death all from a tiny drop, comparable to the size of a raindrop, of one chemical that touched her skin. Working as a research chemist at Dartmouth ...

The man, a former teacher, pleaded guilty after plotting to use highly toxic dimethylmercury to poison a woman who had broken off a relationship with him, prosecutors said. By Neil Vigdor A Missouri ...