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.

Entotheonella sp. accumulates arsenic and barium. Arsenic and barium have the highest atomic weight, among elements found in the sponge 14.Thus, their accumulation can be detected using a scanning ...

The FDA finalized a limit on inorganic arsenic in apple juice that it initially proposed in 2013. The carcinogen can naturally occur in the environment. CNN values your feedback ...

Elements: Arsenic. Business Daily. The macabre poison of crime novels and history books has some surprising modern uses. But it was also behind the "largest mass poisoning in history", ...

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.

The first organism able to substitute one of the six chemical elements crucial to life has been found. The bacterium, found in a California lake, uses the usually poisonous element arsenic in ...

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 is an element found in nature, and in man-made products, including some pesticides. Low levels of arsenic are found in soil, water and air.

When cooking up the stuff of life, you can’t just substitute margarine for butter. Or so scientists thought. But now researchers have coaxed a microbe to build itself with arsenic in the place ...

Arsenic, a naturally occurring element in the earth’s crust, contaminates water supplies when it migrates from rocks into groundwater. Chronic exposure to arsenic in drinking water can cause serious ...