All articles by Rebecca Trager – Page 30
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: James Keeler
The head of Cambridge’s chemistry department says its research has been ‘mothballed’, and he worries about lost productivity
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NewsScholarly publishers join forces to fast-track Covid-19 studies
Researchers asked to volunteer as ‘rapid reviewers’ for coronavirus manuscripts, and over 1000 have already answered the call
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OpinionRita Colwell: ‘Pseudoscience is almost like a disease’
The former director of the US National Science Foundation on persevering and flourishing as a woman in science
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Sarah Reisman
Work hasn’t slowed for the head of a Caltech synthetic organic chemistry lab, but now she’s doing it from home with her two young children
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Liang Zhang
Everything changed for a young chemist in Shanghai when Covid-19 hit while he was away visiting family to celebrate the Chinese New Year
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Akash Deep Biswas
A young computational chemist from India, working to finish his PhD in Italy, is getting media attention for his social action during the pandemic
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NewsEnvironment agency scraps limits on mercury from US coal power plants
Public health benefits of restricting emissions of the heavy metal will no longer be taken into account
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Bartosz Grzybowski
Polish chemist has been able to keep his research at labs in South Korea and Poland remarkably stable during this volatile period
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Alán Aspuru-Guzik
University of Toronto quantum computing guru says the computational chemists are ‘not in a normal state’, in Canada or anywhere
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NewsNuclear agency proposes deregulating disposal of some US radioactive waste
NRC issues new ‘interpretive rule’ allowing ‘very low level’ radioactive waste to be disposed of in landfills
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Núria López
The Spanish scientific superstar is at home, but busier than ever trying to get researchers access to Europe’s supercomputers to fight Covid-19
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Laurean Ilies
As Japan declares an emergency state, a Romanian team leader at Riken uneasily shuts down his lab
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Helen Sharman
A former space-travelling chemist finds she has to rejig her work here on Earth as a science communicator
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ReviewFilm: Human Nature
The story of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing technology, and where it could and should take humanity
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Edgar Cahoon
Labs are still open at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, US, but it’s not business as usual
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Dick Zare
As part of a new series looking at how chemists are affected by Covid-19, Dick Zare relates how manuscripts and Zoom calls have kept him busy in self-isolation.
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NewsUS agency concludes asbestos exposure poses ‘unreasonable’ risk in many cases
Environmental Protection Agency finds exposure to asbestos in the chlor-alkali industry and elsewhere poses serious risk
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Research‘Liquid biopsy’ blood test accurately spots cancer by detecting DNA methylation
Power of AI harnessed to identify 50 different cancers before symptoms have even begun to emerge
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BusinessCan existing drugs slow Covid-19?
The fastest route to treatments may be to repurpose existing drugs – if they work
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NewsAnother US researcher charged with lying about Chinese ties
Physicist faces 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding West Virginia University while secretly working for Chinese talent programme