Cyanide is a highly lethal chemical that has been used in warfare and poisonings for centuries—that was the general consensus on the naturally occurring chemical up until spring 2025. But in a global ...

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 ...

The Cornerstone Chemical Co. plant on River Road in Waggaman has produced cyanide on the site for more than half a century. But until the plant’s owners quietly received approval for a $100 million ...

Scientists have traveled billions of years into the past to understand how life began on Earth. No one was around when life formed, but by recreating conditions of Earth’s early environment, ...

Syrian rebels and government officials have accused each other of launching chemical attacks -- an escalation that, if confirmed, would mark the first known use of chemical weapons in the civil war. U ...