In Nebraska, along the Platte River, it’s uranium. In Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, it’s arsenic. In California, boron. And in the Texas Panhandle, lithium. Throughout the nation, metals and ...

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All living organisms on this planet use six elements for almost all of the chemical structures of DNA, RNA, proteins, and lipids. There is a smattering of other elements, mostly metals, that are ...

Arsenic has a well-deserved reputation as a poison; in ancient times it was known as the “Poison of Kings and the King of Poisons.” But arsenic, an element found naturally in soil, air, and drinking ...

The plant apparently has an affinity for arsenic, a toxic element that occurs naturally in soil and groundwater. "It turns out that rice needs to take up silica," Jackson explained, ...

When scientists isolated GFAJ-1 in Mono Lake, Calif., they suspected it might interact with arsenic in an unusual fashion and perhaps even reveal something new about arsenic's role in biochemistry.

Cristina Andrade-Feraud, Florida International University and Diana Azzam, Florida International University. Arsenic is a naturally occurring element found in the Earth’s crust. Exposure to arsenic, ...

Arsenic comes in two forms – organic and inorganic. “Organic” has nothing to do with agriculture; it’s a term from chemistry. If arsenic is combined with carbon, it is organic. If it is combined with ...

If ever there was an element that epitomizes the notion that chemicals might be good or bad depending on their use, arsenic must be it. Katherine Haxton explains why.

Testing a well for arsenic costs as little as $15 to $30, while treatment systems for removing arsenic cost $1,200 to $3,000, according to the Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection.