Quite a few comic book heroes and villains have science experiments gone wrong to thank for their aliveness. The Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, the Lizard and the Green Goblin are just some of ...

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A teacher ended up red-faced – and red all over – when a science experiment went wrong. Stuart Naismith, 35, stood up in front of half the school to show off his skills at a special assembly. The plan ...

Nobel Dreams (1987), Bad Science (1993), Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), and Why We Get Fat(2011). Taubes is a former staff member at DISCOVER. He has won the Science in Society Award of the ...

Several students have been taken to hospital after a science experiment went wrong at a secondary school in Sydney. The accident at Manly West Public School left 11 students and one teacher injured ...

Thomas Bromley (Letters, August 14) accuses me of "being loud against animal testing but remarkably quiet about the alternatives". I suspect he realises my correspondence was edited and specific ...