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NewsGovernment reshuffle splits UK science minister brief
Amanda Solloway is promoted from the backbenches to become the UK’s new science minister
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Open data and genomics are at the forefront in battle to control coronavirus
Efforts to tackle the virus have seen unprecedented cross-border collaboration
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Industry and academic chemistry titan John Cadogan dies
Past president of the Royal Society of Chemistry passes away aged 89
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Number of industrial chemicals being produced globally grossly underestimated
Analysis of national chemical inventories finds three times as many chemicals registered for production as previously thought
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Trump proposes slashing basic and applied research by 9.1% in budget
White House requests big cuts to US science agencies but Congress is unlikely to back them
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Financial woes have India’s scientists worried despite budget funding pledges
Fears voiced that the promised investment in research will not materialise once more
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Old mattresses and a little chemistry help Syrian refugees grow food in the desert
University of Sheffield scientists provide the spark to get displaced victims of Syria’s civil war growing their own
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Are the last half century’s worth of results from widely-used spectroscopy tool wrong?
Spectroscopists claim work on semiconducting and insulating materials is mostly worthless
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Can negative emission technologies overcome climate catastrophe?
Reforestation, carbon capture and storage, direct air capture are among the ‘Nets’ that could remove CO2 from the atmosphere
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Most major journals’ peer review and preprint policies are unclear
Roughly one-third of 171 top academic journals surveyed offer no info on the type of peer review they use, and 40% have ambiguous preprint rules
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Trump pressed by Nobel laureates to make US-funded research available for free
White House proposal for free and immediate access to taxpayer-funded research currently appears to be stalled
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UK aims to woo world’s top scientists with visa scheme starting next month
Cap on visa numbers abolished as government makes bid for global talent
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Sunscreen chemicals absorbed into skin at rates that require further safety tests
US drug safety body finds six common sunscreen ingredients enter bloodstream rapidly
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Harvard’s chemistry head charged with fraud for hiding ties to Chinese institute
Nanoscience pioneer Charles Lieber faces up to five years in jail for failing to disclose millions in funding from China to US funding agencies
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Theft of universities’ secrets fuels US crackdown on Chinese talent programmes
Government worries that national labs and universities are complacent about the threat to intellectual property
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Bird droppings to help cut the crap in graphene doping papers
Dramatic illustration shows there’s little value in doping graphene electrodes to make better water splitting catalysts
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Researchers love their jobs but toxic competition and publishing pressures take their toll
Largest survey of its kind finds research culture is struggling – results that surprise few
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Future of UK science hangs in the balance in crucial year
Promises to double funding and create new blue skies research agency sit uneasily with likelihood of crashing out of EU science programmes
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Plane shot down by Iran had dozens of Canadian scientists on board
Canadian academic community mourns the deaths of students and colleagues
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Europe sets its sights on non-stick and stain-resistant perfluorinated chemicals
EU plans to regulate these compounds as a single class, as action on them stalls in the US
