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A man standing in a laboratory, writing in his notebook. A team led by Case van Genuchten, seen here in in a laboratory in India, has found a way to extract metallic arsenic from wastewater sludge.

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The Environmental Working Group (EWG)'s Tap Water Database reveals which states have water utilities that serve residents drinking water with levels of arsenic above the legal level outlined by the ...

Scientists have long known that arsenic in drinking water is a health threat, but its affects on the brain were less clear. A new study using fruit flies revealed that arsenic exposure can lead to ...

To blunt the toxic arsenic in the waters where it lives, a deep-sea worm combines it with another chemical to produce a less toxic compound. By Jack Tamisiea Arsenic is a toxic metal, and exposure to ...