All North America articles – Page 16
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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
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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
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NewsCommunity defends chemistry professor facing deportation from US
Over 53,000 sign petition to keep a Bangladeshi chemistry professor from being deported, after his sudden arrest by immigration officials
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NewsNumber of international students applying and enrolling at US universities drops
New data confirms enrolment of overseas student pursuing science and engineering degrees dropped 6% in 2017
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NewsApotex chief executive steps down amid tumult at generics firm
President and chief executive of Canada’s biggest generic drugmaker resigns the same day that police announce its founder and his wife were murdered
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NewsUS government shutdown ends, but problems for science persist
The compromise that allowed the government to reopen is still worrying the nation’s research community