Many of us gained our first appreciation for chemistry upon witnessing a high school teacher drop a chunk of sodium into a beakerful of water. You may think you know the explanation behind the ...

Around 8 am on Friday morning, an employee of a water treatment plant in the 15,000-person city of Oldsmar, Florida, noticed that his mouse cursor was moving strangely on his computer screen, out of ...

The spectacular reaction of alkali metals with water was poorly understood — despite being a staple of chemistry classes. It’s the classic piece of chemical tomfoolery: take a lump of sodium or ...

Chemists have scrutinized a classic piece of bench chemistry — the explosion that happens when sodium metal hits water — and revised the thinking of how it works. On contact with water, the metal ...

Officials said "at no time was there a significant adverse effect on the water being treated" A computer hacker gained access to the water system of a city in Florida and tried to pump in a "dangerous ...