About 47 million homes use natural gas or propane-burning cooktops and ovens. Researchers found that cooking with gas stoves can raise indoor levels of the carcinogen benzene above those found in ...

A chemical linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers creeps into millions of homes whenever residents light their gas stoves. A new Stanford-led analysis finds that a single gas ...

The new study is the first to analyse benzene emissions when a stove or oven is in use The researchers found gas and propane burners and ovens emitted 10 to 50 times more benzene than electric stoves.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Cooking with a gas stove in your kitchen can emit as much benzene into a home as second-hand tobacco smoke, depending on ventilation and the size of the ...

A chemical linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers creeps into millions of homes whenever residents light their gas stoves. A new Stanford-led analysis finds that a single gas ...

A gas cooktop burner on high or a gas oven set to 350 degrees Fahrenheit was found to increase indoor levels of the carcinogen benzene exceeding those in secondhand tobacco smoke. // ‘Indoor benzene ...

Cooking with gas hobs or ovens releases benzene — a chemical that has been associated with a higher risk of leukaemia and other blood cell cancers. This is the warning of a study by researchers from ...

Benzene is a naturally occurring chemical compound. Scientists can also make it in a laboratory, and companies widely use it as a solvent in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Exposure to ...

For nearly half a century, astrophysicists and organic chemists have been on the hunt for the origins of C 6 H 6, the benzene ring – an elegant, hexagonal molecule comprised of 6 carbon and 6 hydrogen ...

A chemical linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers creeps into millions of homes whenever residents light their gas stoves. A new Stanford-led analysis finds that a single gas ...