All North America articles – Page 9
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BusinessUS bans most flavoured vaping cartridges
Cartridge-based e-cigarettes in flavours other than menthol or tobacco without regulatory approval will be removed from sale
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NewsAmerican scientific publishers panic over paywall policy rumours
The White House is apparently poised to force the immediate free distribution of scientific journal articles arising from federal funding
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NewsElsevier signs first major open access deal with a US university
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will have access to Elsevier’s 3500 academic journals, and can publish their work open access at no extra charge
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BusinessFormer Braskem chief arrested in US for bribery
Ex-leader of Brazilian petrochemical firm allegedly helped divert $250m to a secret slush fund to bribe government officials and political parties
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NewsCity-dwellers have higher trust in science than country folk
Half of urban and suburban residents in the US have high confidence in scientists compared to roughly a third of people in rural areas
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NewsScience now being undermined by US government on an almost weekly basis
Bipartisan report says that abuse of government science has reached record levels
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OpinionUnder a cloud
Chemical detective work is needed to track down what’s been killing e-cigarette users
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NewsDeaths from vaping-linked lung disease in US connected to vitamin E additive
Tocopheryl acetate implicated in 380 cases of severe lung disease and six deaths
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PodcastAmygdalin & Laetrile
Patrick Hughes delves into the molecule at the centre of a decades-old cancer treatment conspiracy theory
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NewsCDC scientist George Luber seeking whistleblower protection
Former head of the Centre’s climate and health programme claims he was targeted for speaking out about climate change
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NewsUS science agency moves to crack down on IP theft
NSF says new rules respond to the ‘scope and sophistication’ of threats like overseas talent recruitment programmes
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NewsUniversity of California cut off from Elsevier journals after contract cancellation
System of 10 universities has been preparing for loss of journals for months with legal avenues arranged to access new papers
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PodcastCyclopropane
Chemistry’s tastiest bonds for an explosive anaesthetic that was as useful as it was dangerous
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OpinionThe Solar Army marches on
High school students in Puerto Rico are using chemistry to combat climate change
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Podcast2C psychedelics
A class of hallucinogenic phenethylamines, explored by the 'godfather of psychedelics' Alexander Shulgin and sadly implicated in a tragedy at a 2017 music festival
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NewsTrump repeals and replaces Obama’s clean power plan to curb coal emissions
Affordable Clean Energy Rule lets states determine how or whether to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants
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NewsThird of US science and environment advisory committees to be slashed
President Trump’s latest order has science advocates worried
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NewsNorthwestern opens largest biomedical building of any US university
Chemistry sits atop Northwestern University’s new 12-story interdisciplinary biomedical centre
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NewsJust six sexual harassment complaints were received by four of the US’s top funding bodies – over four years
Nasa, energy and agriculture departments and National Institutes of Health all received fewer than three complaints