NEWSMAX(@NEWSMAX):The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is questioning whether a graduate student actually synthesized dimethylmercury, a lethal neurotoxin, after the student self-reported to a Cambridge, Massachusetts, hospital and prompted a multiday hazmat shutdown of a chemistry building.

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2026.08.30 22:00

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is questioning whether a graduate student actually synthesized dimethylmercury, a lethal neurotoxin, after the student self-reported to a Cambridge, Massachusetts, hospital and prompted a multiday hazmat shutdown of a chemistry building.