All North America articles – Page 15
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News
Hawaii set for first ever ban on two sunscreen ingredients
Coral protection bill that bans sunscreens with oxybenzone and octinoxate expected to be signed into law shortly
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News
Evidence of gender bias found in peer review
Men were more likely to secure health research grants than women in Canadian study
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Chemistry professor freed but still faces deportation from US
Bangladeshi chemistry instructor who spent almost two months in jail for overstaying his US visa now awaits a final deportation decision
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News
Mardi Grass
The cannabis chemistry subdivision of the American Chemical Society takes to the streets of New Orleans
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Business
Chemicals caught in the middle as tariffs loom
America’s chemicals and plastics industry stands to lose $5bn if US–China dispute escalates
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News
Chaos at US government’s research integrity office
The dramatic drop in misconduct findings from the Office of Research Integrity in the last two years has been blamed on turmoil at the agency
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Fallout from rogue US forensic chemist continues
Massachusetts’ highest court has dismissed more than 11,000 drug convictions due to serious misconduct by a drug lab chemist
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Protein chemist barred from US government funding for a decade
Former University of Alabama researcher found guilty of falsifying x-ray crystallographic data more than 10 years after red flags first raised
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Opinion
James Smithson: a lordly legacy
The chemist who established the world’s largest centre for science
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News
Cheap airfares fuel scientific partnerships
Chemistry collaborations jump 36% when US discount airline establishes a new route, international team finds
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Careers
How to work in another country
Five tips for getting the most out of moving to a lab in a new land
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News
Budget deal forecasts sunnier times for US science
President Trump has signed a spending bill that increases government R&D spending by almost 13%
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Feature
Cuba: socialism, cigars and biotech
Nina Notman learns how biotechnology could potentially overtake cigars as Cuba’s most famous export
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Feature
Oak Ridge at 75
As Oak Ridge National Laboratory celebrates its 75th anniversary, Kit Chapman visits the birthplace of the atomic age
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News
Leaky pipeline for LGBQ university students on science and engineering degrees
US students who identify as LGBQ are 8% less likely than their heterosexual peers to finish Stem courses
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Business
US steel and aluminium tariffs threaten chemical and plastics sectors
Trump administration to levy 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium
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News
US imposes further sanctions on North Korea for VX assassination
State Department confirms North Korea used lethal nerve agent to kill the half-brother of Kim Jong-un
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Canada to boost science with C$950m supercluster strategy
Five collaborative research hubs are predicted to create more than 50,000 jobs
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Business
DowDupont names its three new separate businesses
Corteva Agriscience, Dow and DuPont will be what DowDuPont calls the three independent companies it will spin-off by June 2019
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News
#UsToo movement targets sexual harassment in science
US scientific societies rewrite policies to clamp down on sexual harassment