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Freedom Industries’ president arrested for fraud
Executive whose company leaked MCHM into West Virginian water supplies is charged with lying to deflect blame
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ResearchSunlight activates radical approach to dengue eradication
Mosquito larvae degraded by iron oxide catalysts supported on floating blocks
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NewsCanadian clamp down on mercury
New rules will ban making and importing most mercury-containing products
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First science envoys announced for the US
Former NOAA chief will serve as one of several top scientists in newly created posts
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BusinessMerck & Co to buy antibiotics specialist Cubist
Pharma giant remains committed to $9.5bn deal despite key Cubist patents being invalidated by court ruling
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ResearchCutting edge chemistry in 2014
We take a look back at the year’s most interesting chemical science stories
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Researchσ meets π for a hole lot of bonding
Co-operating holes provide unique interaction opportunities
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Big pharma opens up abandoned drugs
Seven firms will make 68 stalled compounds available for academic research
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BusinessSolving iron’s solubility problem
Technology profile: MRC Human Nutrition Research - anaemia supplements with fewer side effects
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Business
Saint-Gobain surprises Sika with buyout bid
Company is buying out family-owned controlling stake, but Sika claims the deal will create a conflict of interest
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Research
Quick and cheap test to detect horse meat
Scientists develop test for meat authentification using a benchtop NMR machine
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NewsMore congressional criticism of US science agency funding
House science committee’s Republican leader accuses NSF of poor stewardship of taxpayer dollars allegedly spent on parties, trips
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ResearchSpinach chlorophyll activates polymer production line
Light energy channelled into biomedically useful molecules
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Business
Huntsman looks to cut jobs and titania capacity
900 employees face axe as firm evaluates titanium dioxide options
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ResearchAsteroid bombardment of early Earth may have created building blocks of life
Simulated asteroid impacts turn simple chemical into DNA bases
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ResearchDesigning blue organic LEDs from scratch
Researchers believe their work will help others produce highly efficient, metal-free devices
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Chemistry performs better on gender balance in US than other physical science
Representation of women among US chemistry doctoral recipients is nearly 40%
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ResearchShining a light on rewritable paper
Plastic ‘paper’ written on with UV light and wiped cleaned with heat
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Tufts’ $2.6bn drug development figure questioned
Details sought about how university determined cost of bringing a drug to market jumped 145% since 2003