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 ...

Firefighters in Massachusetts were called to a high school science classroom to remove an old jar that held potentially explosive sodium.The Boston Globe reports firefighters responded to the North ...

Firefighters and other emergency response crews arrived at the North River Collaborative School in Rockland on Tuesday after a science teacher found a likely decades-old jar of potentially explosive ...