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Scientists back creation of an international body to oversee chemicals and waste
New organisation could tackle problem of ‘limited and fragmented’ coverage of environmental impact of these issues
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Green light for world’s first Sars-CoV-2 studies that will infect healthy volunteers
UK trials will assess how well Covid-19 treatments work and if vaccines protect against new virus variants
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Funding body plans to revive research fortunes of India’s left behind universities
National Research Foundation aims to rejuvenate and transform the country’s research with well-funded five-year programme
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UK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022
£800 million fund is based on the US Advanced Research Projects Agency model
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Brutal winter storm freezes Texas chemists’ research
Extreme cold in Texas has burst pipes and flooded labs at several universities
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Reach’s health benefits are four times greater than the costs
European Chemicals Agency report claims benefits from bloc’s chemical legislation run to €2.1 billion annually
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European commission to reconsider how it announces winners of Marie Curie fellowships
Some researchers applying for the EU scheme were left in limbo over whether or not they had won an award
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UK’s £800m ‘blue skies’ research funder still has no clear purpose
House of Commons calls on government to find focus for Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Environmental Protection Agency haemorrhaged scientific expertise under Trump
More than 670 scientific posts were lost at the EPA over Donald Trump’s tenure including chemists, chemical engineers and microbiologists
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Elite scientists picking up more citations than ever as the rest lose out
Top 1% of scientists took 21% of citations in 2015
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Wage rise for Max Planck PhD candidates approved
Around 3400 doctoral researchers will benefit from the higher salary
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First detection of hydrogen chloride gas on Mars
Discovery by ExoMars Orbiter of a new chemical cycle driven by dust and seasonal changes
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Florida drinking water plant hack briefly raised sodium hydroxide levels 100-fold
Security breach reveals industrial facilities’ control system vulnerabilities as remote work is normalised during the pandemic
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Ballooning coal use sees China’s energy agency face harsh criticism from the top
Energy security came at the expense of the environment with more coal power plants built than needed, report finds
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UK funding agency hack could be ‘legally and intellectually significant’
Data breach hits grant proposals across UK Research and Innovation
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Contentious Trump-era ‘secret science’ rule struck down
US court scraps Environmental Protection Agency regulation, finalised in the waning days of Trump’s presidency, that hindered agency’s use of non-public data in policymaking
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Dozens of publishers oppose key provision in open access Plan S
Over 50 publishers fear open access publishing initiative’s ‘Rights Retention’ strategy could harm journal revenue and article quality
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Wellcome Leap launches global network to tackle pressing health issues
More than 20 research institutions are part of new effort to the cut red tape hindering research
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£10m to help specialist UK research institutions hit by charity shortfall
Research England funds will support research on cancer and tropical diseases
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Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, who coined the term Anthropocene, dies
Cutzen’s passing means that all three scientists who won the 1995 chemistry Nobel prize for their ozone formation and decomposition work are gone