All North America articles – Page 15
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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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FeatureCuba: socialism, cigars and biotech
Nina Notman learns how biotechnology could potentially overtake cigars as Cuba’s most famous export
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FeatureOak Ridge at 75
As Oak Ridge National Laboratory celebrates its 75th anniversary, Kit Chapman visits the birthplace of the atomic age
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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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NewsCanada to boost science with C$950m supercluster strategy
Five collaborative research hubs are predicted to create more than 50,000 jobs
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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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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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PodcastTennessine
Three Tennessee institutions contributed to the discovery of element 117, now fittingly named tennessine
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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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PodcastLivermorium
Meet the Mayor of Livermore, California, and discover how his city has been immortalised on the periodic table
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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