Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Highly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas had leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, killing 5,479 ...

The leak was called world's worst industrial disaster. Around 40 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate gas was released into air, and killed more than 3,000 people. The toxic waste which had been ...

ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate -- a chemical building block of life. This is the first ever detection of this ...