All articles by Rebecca Trager – Page 27
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BusinessPredicting and preventing production losses with AI
Seebo’s machine learning technology helps chemical manufacturers get deep insight into their processes
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NewsQuotas for women or based on ethnicity ruled out for the Nobel prizes
Head of the body that awards the Nobel calls the small number of females Nobel laureates ‘sad’, but says quotas are the wrong approach
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NewsLongest-serving National Institutes of Health chief, Francis Collins, to step down
Head of $41 billion US biomedical research agency will depart at the end of the year
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BusinessSecond Daikin-America employee dies from chemical exposure
Chemical that killed two workers and hospitalised a third at a US fluorochemicals plant remains unidentified
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NewsResearchGate pulls 200,000 files from its site, amid publisher pressure
Elsevier and ACS demanded removal of number of research articles for infringing copyright
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OpinionHow Covid-19 has changed us
While the pandemic has introduced more efficient and global ways of working, researchers and educators still have challenges to overcome
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NewsChemistry Nobel predictions range from free-radical chemistry to MOFs
Data-crunching goes up against gut feeling as the chemistry community weighs in on their favourites for the world’s top chemistry prize
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NewsTrilateral agreement reached on funding neutron research centre for another decade
The UK, France and Germany will provide support for the Institut Laue-Langevin, the world’s most intense neutron source
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BusinessChemours under fire for trying to exempt fluorochemicals from EU regulation
European Court of Justice will rule on whether GenX chemicals should be listed as substances of very high concern
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ResearchSunlight transforms plastic into tens of thousands of new compounds
Marine plastics don’t persist forever, sun exposure can break them down into extremely complex chemical compounds in just weeks
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NewsScience and research ‘are dead’ in Afghanistan
Afghan researchers and scholars flee or go into hiding as the Taliban’s return to power sees the science academy and universities closed
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NewsUS intelligence can’t agree if Covid-19 came from an animal or a lab
After months of investigation agencies remain divided on most likely origin of Sars-CoV-2
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BusinessUS bans chlorpyrifos on all food crops
Environmental agency removes remaining exceptions for agricultural use of controversial insecticide
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NewsShedding light on Nazi-era uranium cubes with modern nuclear forensics
US team are using radiochronometry to confirm their authenticity and origins
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NewsEPA accused again of compromising chemical safety assessments
Four scientists at EPA’s chemical safety office step up allegations against the agency, saying they’re prohibited from seeking expert colleague input
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CareersImposter syndrome’s disproportionate impact
In academic fields thought to require ‘brilliance’, women – and especially minority women – report greater feelings of professional inadequacy
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BusinessBrewing up plant-inspired medicines
Antheia reconstructs complex biochemical pathways in yeasts to speed up production of natural product-based drugs
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BusinessDaikin-America employee dies from chemical exposure
Sulfur dioxide suspected in death of man in Alabama, more than a month after incident
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BusinessFire in Russian chemical plant kills one, injures six
Government to investigate a fatal fire at military production facility in southern Russia
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NewsNobel laureates accuse China of attempting to censor Taiwanese chemist
The US National Academy of Sciences came under pressure to revoke the invite of chemistry laureate Yuan Lee to a climate summit