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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

New research this month adds more fuel to the debate over gas stoves. The study found that gas and propane stoves emitted detectable amounts of benzene, a common air pollutant and carcinogen. Benzene ...

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 ...

Gas stoves have long been sold as a mark of a serious kitchen, but mounting research suggests they quietly load homes with pollution that behaves less like a cozy hearth and more like secondhand smoke ...

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 ...