All articles by Rebecca Trager – Page 42
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ResearchZeolite filters out carcinogens to make tastier smoked foods
Technology can remove up to 93% of polyaromatic hydrocarbons produced by the smoking process
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NewsGraduate student population experiencing mental health ‘crisis’
Among graduate trainees surveyed by US researchers, 41% had anxiety and 39% were depressed
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NewsCheap airfares fuel scientific partnerships
Chemistry collaborations jump 36% when US discount airline establishes a new route, international team finds
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ResearchNanoparticle fertilisers show promise
Overuse of traditional chemicals could be tackled using nanotech
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OpinionFrances Arnold: 'I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world'
This revolutionary engineer loves to walk, travel, and learn from nature
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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