Rice is a dietary staple for more than half of the world’s population. Due to its high mineral content and gluten-free properties, the pulverized form is usually one of the first solid foods to be ...

On the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees, ETH researchers have analyzed particulate matter, clouds and rainwater for traces of arsenic. Using newly developed measurement methods, they have elucidated the ...

Each year, the Laboratory of Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Joint Stock Company (BSR) conducts hundreds of tests to ...

Cooking rice by repeatedly flushing it through with fresh hot water can remove much of the grain’s stored arsenic, researchers have found—a tip that could lessen levels of the toxic substance in one ...

A man standing in a laboratory, writing in his notebook. A team led by Case van Genuchten, seen here in in a laboratory in India, has found a way to extract metallic arsenic from wastewater sludge.

Arsenic is a double-edged sword. It is a known carcinogen found naturally at high levels in groundwater. But it is also an element that is critical for clean energy technologies such as solar cells.

Arsenic has been leaching into the lake from tailings at the abandoned Long Lake Gold Mine, which operated intermittently until 1937 and produced approximately 200,000 metric tons of tailings, ...