All articles by Rebecca Trager – Page 13
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BusinessMallinckrodt ordered to clean up US river mercury pollution
Firm must set at least $187 million in trust to pay for Penobscot river remediation
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NewsThe world’s largest atmospheric carbon dioxide removal project is coming
Direct air capture plant in Wyoming set to begin running by late 2023, remove of 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air annually by 2030
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NewsWhat to do with vast stockpiles of PFAS-laden firefighting foam?
Battelle’s new supercritical water oxidation technology has proven that it can destroy legacy foams containing ‘forever chemicals’
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NewsEminent NYU chemist fired after students complain about taxing organic chemistry course
Maitland Jones’s sacking highlights tensions between student expectations, academic rigour and teaching styles
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NewsThe Afghan organic chemist who can’t return home
After escaping Afghanistan as a child and growing up in Iran, this chemist is left with nowhere to go
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NewsAccess to chemical database Reaxys under threat in UK as fees spiral
Universities are holding off renewing access to the database while Jisc negotiates with Elsevier
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NewsSmall group of top schools in the US supply most of the nation’s faculty
Approximately 80% of all faculty trained in the US got their PhDs at 20% of the country’s universities
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NewsRise of hype see more and more ‘novel’, ‘critical’ and ‘key’ grant applications
Hyperbole rockets 1300% in 15 years in successful National Institutes of research applications
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OpinionKnocking down paywalls
President Biden’s surprise announcement ending paywalls for federally-funded research by 2026 has left publishers scrambling to respond
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BusinessArrayit chief convicted of fraud over blood testing
Mark Schena misrepresented the company’s value to investors and defrauded public and private insurers
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NewsProposal to name PFAS chemicals as ‘hazardous’ alarms industry
EPA’s plan to designate PFOA and PFOS to be hazardous substances could hand chemical companies a clean-up bill for billions of dollars
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BusinessFatal hydrogen sulfide leak at US waste treatment plant
One worker killed and four others injured at US Ecology site in Ohio
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NewsWorrying ingredients found in tattoo inks made in the US
Azo-containing dyes and nanoparticles discovered in US tattoo inks often aren’t listed on labels
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NewsWhite House says federally-funded research papers must be open access from 2026
Biden administration’s policy change will see optional 12-month embargo period scrapped
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ResearchCarbon dots help sniff out nanoplastics in the air
Electronic sensor developed that can detect airborne nanoplastics, including their types, amounts, and sizes
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ResearchChemical decapitation renders PFAS harmless
An unexpected mechanism destroys persistent perfluorinated chemicals, though the method isn’t ready for the field yet
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NewsAfghan scientific expertise scattered, one year on from Taliban takeover
Afghanistan’s research infrastructure may be idling, but students and researchers who managed to escape abroad continue their work and plan to return to help rebuild their homeland
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ResearchRotting fish experiments reveal how organs fossilise
Most fossils are bones, but individual organs’ biochemistry determines whether they are preserved in rock
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FeatureCultured meat flexes its muscles
Rebecca Trager examines an emerging industry that is growing ‘meat’ outside of animals using cell lines cultivated in bioreactors
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NewsExplainer: The chemistry that keeps swimming pools clean and safe
How disinfectant chemicals protect us when we’re having a dip