All articles by Rebecca Trager – Page 31
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ResearchTweaking honey bee bacteria to fight colony collapse disorder
Genetically altered strains of bacteria from honey bee guts can fight virus and mites that threaten this population
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CareersPostdoc employment status varies widely
Researchers are vulnerable to financial instability and issues with healthcare
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NewsSunscreen chemicals absorbed into skin at rates that require further safety tests
US drug safety body finds six common sunscreen ingredients enter bloodstream rapidly
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NewsHarvard’s chemistry head charged with fraud for hiding ties to Chinese institute
Nanoscience pioneer Charles Lieber faces up to five years in jail for failing to disclose millions in funding from China to US funding agencies
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ResearchFour chemical classes cost US public 270 million IQ points over 15 years
Flame retardants and pesticides linked to over a million intellectual disability cases between 2001 and 2016
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NewsTheft of universities’ secrets fuels US crackdown on Chinese talent programmes
Government worries that national labs and universities are complacent about the threat to intellectual property
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NewsPlane shot down by Iran had dozens of Canadian scientists on board
Canadian academic community mourns the deaths of students and colleagues
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NewsEurope sets its sights on non-stick and stain-resistant perfluorinated chemicals
EU plans to regulate these compounds as a single class, as action on them stalls in the US
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NewsStar Chinese scientist and assistant jailed for embezzling research funds
Top researcher gets 12 years in prison for routing £3.8 million in government grants to companies he controlled
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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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NewsMale scientists more likely to blow their own trumpet when it comes to research
Analysis of 6 million papers finds male lead authors are up to 21% more likely to use language that casts findings as very significant compared with female ones
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NewsPredatory publishing definition aims to tackle scientific scourge
Lack of an agreed definition has been hampering efforts to take on fraudsters
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ResearchBlood test picks out proteins that accurately predict age
Discovery could lead to better preventive medicine
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BusinessTwo deadly chemical plant explosions in China
Dye factory incident kills 9 people, prompting detention of company officials, while a second plant explosion took 4 lives
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NewsSanctions imposed by research agency on Duke University lifted
University has met all commitments in plan agreed with National Institutes of Health
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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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NewsTwo Arkansas chemistry professors charged with manufacturing methamphetamine
Henderson State University researchers arrested after lab discovery now face 40 years to life in prison