Cyanide Millipede: People in different regions call this bug by different names like glass worm and thousand-legged bug. You often spot them around your house during the monsoons. But are these bugs ...

Toxic sodium cyanide has been used in gold mining since 1887, and it remains the primary reagent in use for gold processing today because it allows for efficient extraction of gold from low-grade ore.

The diagnostic test to determine cyanide exposure takes 24 hours. According to U.S. Department of Health recommendations, "any delay to draw blood or collect urine could endanger patient welfare." ...

A University of Pittsburgh researcher was in court today in West Virginia (where he was stopped by police during a road trip). The occasion was an extradition hearing which began the process of ...

Today, the colorless and deadly gas cyanide is known as a fast-acting poison and a chemical weapon. Four billion years ago, however, it may have been a harbinger of life. Chemists at Scripps Research ...

Talk about cyanide, and images of a lethal pill used by spies to avoid capture come to mind. Few people outside the gold mining industry know that sodium cyanide is used in most of the world’s ...

Compounds containing iron, cyanide, and carbon monoxide discovered in carbon-rich meteorites by scientists may have helped power life on early Earth. Cyanide and carbon monoxide are both deadly ...