On Tuesday, the world watched in horror as a deadly chemical agent—likely sarin gas, one of the most-toxic chemical weapons in existence—was unleashed on unsuspecting civilians, including dozens of ...

Gulf War illness (GWI) is an umbrella term that describes an array of chronic symptoms that have impacted an estimated 200,000 Persian Gulf War veterans. Researchers and clinicians have spent years ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Last week, pictures and amateur videos trickled into the Western media depicting residents of a Syrian suburb twitching and struggling to breathe.

Sarin and other nerve agents are a notable exception. Only thirty-five milligrams of sarin per cubic meter are necessary to kill a human being after two minutes of exposure, compared to nineteen ...

More than three decades have passed since one of the darkest mornings in postwar Japan. Yet for many survivors of the sarin ...

Sarin is an extremely volatile nerve agent because of its ability to change from liquid to gas. If it evaporates into a gas, it can spread into the environment. Sarin’s designation by NATO is GB.

The United States believes the Syrian government employed a sarin-like nerve agent in Tuesday's deadly attack in the country's northwest. Here are the key facts about sarin, which was discovered in ...

But sarin gas truly grabbed global attention when in 1995, far from the sectarian war zones of the Middle East, it was released into the Tokyo subway system by an obscure spiritualist cult known as ...

Here's some background information about sarin, a man-made nerve agent developed for chemical warfare. Facts: Sarin is a liquid that is clear, colorless, tasteless and odorless. Other WRAL Top Stories ...