Some 16,000 thousand feet up in Chile’s parched Atacama Desert, scientists have employed 66 antenna dishes to find an essential ingredient for life floating around a hot, young star system, 400 light ...

image: ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate -- a chemical building block of life. This is the first ever detection of ...

Bayer (BAY.DE) is storing 90 tonnes of methyl isocyanate -- the chemical that killed thousands in the 1984 Union carbide disaster at Bhopal -- in a storage tank in Institute, W.V., that has failed ...

The release of a chemical intermediate, methyl isocyanate (MIC), at Bhopal, India, in December 1984 is considered the worst industrial chemistry accident on record. Understanding the root cause of the ...

Bayer CropScience announced last week it would reduce by 80% its inventory of methyl isocyanate (MIC) at its Charleston, W.Va., facility. The announcement comes almost exactly one year from the date ...

On Dec. 3, 1984, over 40 tons of methyl isocyanate and other lethal gases including hydrogen cyanide, leaked into the northern end of Bhopal, killing over 3,000 people in its immediate aftermath and ...

The methyl isocyanide (MIC) gas leak in the intervening night of December 2-3 in 1984 killed thousands and left lakhs fighting debilitating illnesses for life. It is generally considered the worst ...

ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate -- a chemical building block of life. This is the first ever detection of this ...