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 ...

Karen Wetterhahn was pipetting a small amount of dimethylmercury under a fume hood in her lab at Dartmouth College when she accidentally spilled a drop or two of the colorless liquid on her latex ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

World-renowned chemist Karen Wetterhahn died after receiving a toxic dose of dimethylmercury, even though she was following proper safety precautions. Chemical toxicity is measured using a number ...

In early May, the neurotoxic effects of the heavy metal mercury made news when outlets reported that 2024 U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in 2012 that he experienced cognitive ...

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 ...