After applying a mercury-laced skin cream for months, a woman begins to experience alarming neurological symptoms. Doctors soon discover that the mercury in the cream caused severe brain poisoning, a ...

Sampling on L.A. area beaches found no lead or other metals at concentrations that could hurt humans or animals.

An exhibit featuring the works of an American photojournalist who documented Minamata disease has opened in Tokyo.

Declassified CIA files reveal a secret program that a former US president was certain would help him 'control the world.' ...

A brilliant scientist accidentally spilled just two drops of organic mercury on her hand during a routine lab experiment. At ...

A trio of ancient reservoirs in present-day Guatemala is revealing both the strength—and limitations—of Mayan water science.

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New research on the ancient Maya city of Ucanal in northern Guatemala reveals that its engineers maintained biologically clean drinking water for nearly 1,500 years, an extraordinary achievement in a ...

Abstract: This paper studies the online reward poisoning problem, wherein an adversary deliberately manipulates the reward function during training to mislead the learning agent into adopting a ...

A new study reveals the Mayan paradox at Ucanal, where a sophisticated reservoir system kept water clean but hidden mercury caused poisoning.