Tens of thousands of residents have been evacuated and Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared an emergency as officials try to thwart an explosion at the facility in Orange County.

Crews have been working through the weekend to cool a chemical tank and stop it from exploding in Southern California as they worked to avert a disastrous “worst-case” scenario, the incident’s ...

Thousands are under evacuation orders in California as officials work to cool off an overheating chemical tank at risk of ...

The goal is to neutralize a nearby 15,000-gallon tank and reduce its explosive potential if the smaller tank failed.

The battle to keep a highly toxic chemical from exploding took a step backward Saturday. The temperature in a critically ...

In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of ...

Firefighters still have few options to prevent a tank of toxic chemicals in Garden Grove, Calif., from leaking or exploding.

Firefighters continue to cool a chemical storage tank with water to prevent it from breaching or exploding. Some 40,000 ...

Three students were injured Friday during a chemistry class mishap at Heritage High School in Brentwood, according to fire ...

Almost every month, Emory University physicist Justin Burton and his graduate students step out of the lab and bring loud, ...

Back in the late 1970s, a group of radio astronomers from Australia embarked on theoretical research. They aimed to detect ...

Watch the video of Sarah’s school science experiment in the video player above. Hello parents, teachers and students! Yep, ...