Police connected a company with ties to the Aum Shinrikyo cult to the sarin nerve gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, ...

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 ...

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

In this Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 photo, a man collects his belongings after his home was damaged due to heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria. (AP ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, pictures and amateur videos trickled into the Western media depicting residents of a Syrian suburb twitching and struggling to breathe. Their pupils were constricted. They were confused.

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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.

Key Point: Such terrible weapons are banned by international law for a good reason. But sometimes someone manages to use them anyway. The residents of Khan Sheikhoun probably thought they were in for ...

For three decades, scientists have debated the underlying cause of Gulf War illness (GWI), a collection of unexplained and chronic symptoms affecting veterans of the Persian Gulf War. Now researchers ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Though inhalation of the vapors is the primary vector of the agent, even skin contact can transmit a fatal dose of sarin to victims, who may die within one to ten ...