All Chemistry World articles in October 2017 – Page 4
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BusinessHurricane hammers US chemical industry
Petrochemical sites along Houston’s seaboard are offline, and flooding has caused explosions at an Arkema facility
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NewsHigh risk spending needed to grow UK life sciences sector
Funding ‘moonshot’ projects among actions report asks UK government to take if life sciences industry is to shine
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BusinessMexichem to buy Netafim in $1.5bn deal
Takeover brings Netafim’s smart irrigation technology that could be applied across other markets
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BusinessUS firm fined for mishandling ammonia
Demakes will pay $130,000 to settle violations and has spent $300,000 upgrading systems
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ResearchAn absolute acidity scale for solvents
Comprehensive solvent acidity scale could help make acid-catalysed reactions more reliable and reproducible
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NewsCrackdown on science fraud in China after string of scandals
More than 500 researchers punished after latest fiasco as government launches ethics code of conduct
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NewsFake peer review hits RSC journals
Questions over true identity of recommended referees sees inorganic materials papers retracted from PCCP, Chemical Communications and Nanoscale
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NewsAAAS ‘highly concerned’ by Trump’s disregard for science advice
World’s largest scientific society worried by Trump administration’s disbanding of climate assessment advisory panel
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NewsNew claims that Exxon misled on climate change
Comparison of internal ExxonMobil documents with company’s advertorials finds marked discrepancy on firm’s position on climate
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OpinionRecharging the UK's battery industry
The £246 million Faraday Challenge is welcome – but it’s not enough
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ResearchAlgorithm modelled on Google’s AlphaGo beats chemists at their own game
Organic chemists prefer routes plotted by software to those of other chemists
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NewsPreprint servers making waves in chemistry community
Chemists are finally getting a preprint server of their own, but the idea is still contentious
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NewsChemical safety head ‘cautiously optimistic’ her agency will be saved
Chair of the US Chemical Safety Board is hopeful that Congress will stop Trump from dropping it
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NewsWhite House lays out longer term R&D priorities
Trump administration says military superiority, prosperity, energy dominance and health deserve ‘special focus’ in R&D budgets
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BusinessMylan settles Epipen overcharging allegations
Company will pay US Department of Justice $465m for avoiding paying rebates to government healthcare systems
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ResearchElemental maps reveal hidden beauty of Roman portrait
Analysis of a degraded wall painting at Herculaneum may help conservators clean and restore it
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BusinessAirgas fined for fatal nitrogen leak at US sperm bank
$300,000 penalty for leak caused by over-pressurisation after Airgas failed to update tank safety label
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NewsChemRxiv preprint server now online
A place for chemists to share early results and data before formal peer review