All articles by Rebecca Trager – Page 40
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NewsBudget deal forecasts sunnier times for US science
President Trump has signed a spending bill that increases government R&D spending by almost 13%
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NewsUK and German chemistry societies sign up to ChemRxiv preprint effort
Chemistry preprint server now co-owned by Royal Society of Chemistry and German Chemical Society
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NewsSexual harassment in chemistry put under the microscope
Experiences of dealing with and overcoming harassment in academia shared at American Chemical Society meeting
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NewsLeaky pipeline for LGBQ university students on science and engineering degrees
US students who identify as LGBQ are 8% less likely than their heterosexual peers to finish Stem courses
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BusinessUS steel and aluminium tariffs threaten chemical and plastics sectors
Trump administration to levy 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium
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NewsUS imposes further sanctions on North Korea for VX assassination
State Department confirms North Korea used lethal nerve agent to kill the half-brother of Kim Jong-un
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NewsSearching for the chemistry of life on exoplanets
The protoplanetary discs that surround young stars and give birth to planets are chemical labs that can reveal which planets might host life
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BusinessDowDupont names its three new separate businesses
Corteva Agriscience, Dow and DuPont will be what DowDuPont calls the three independent companies it will spin-off by June 2019
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News#UsToo movement targets sexual harassment in science
US scientific societies rewrite policies to clamp down on sexual harassment
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BusinessTakata settles with US states over faulty airbag inflators
States will forgo the $650m civil penalty in favour of victims
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News3M pays $850 million to settle drinking water contamination lawsuit
Legal dispute between Minnesota and 3M over perfluorinated compounds ends as company agrees to pay remediation costs
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NewsFormer US Chemical Safety Board chairman won’t be prosecuted
Justice Department has dropped a perjury case against Rafael Moure-Eraso
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ResearchPicasso bronzes tracked back to Parisian foundry
Elemental analysis enabled researchers to delve into art history
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ResearchHousehold chemicals contribute as much as vehicles to urban emissions
Air pollution study finds VOC emissions from everyday products have been hugely underestimated
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NewsAmerica’s largest scientific society gets tough on Trump
‘It is terrifying that our government is operating without the advice of scientists,’ the AAAS president tells the group’s annual meeting
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NewsCompanies consent to cancer warnings on coffee to settle litigation
Thirteen Californian coffee firms agree to warning labels over the presence of acrylamide
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NewsTrump’s latest budget request gives scientists a fright
Plans to slash science funding bodies by around 30% in 2019 headed off by Congress
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NewsUS climate assessment committee resurrected
A climate advisory panel disbanded by the Trump administration will be funded by Columbia University and New York State
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CareersKeeping Austin weird
Your guide to the Lone Star State’s capital ahead of the 2018 AAAS meeting
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NewsClean up agreed for radioactive waste from Manhattan Project
Missouri landfill site to be excavated to deal with illegally dumped material created by development of first atomic weapons