All articles by Rebecca Trager – Page 14
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OpinionReflections on rainwater
Water in the world’s pristine wildernesses is already unsafe to drink by new PFAS pollution standards
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NewsAlphaFold has predicted the structures of almost every known protein
Google offshoot DeepMind has released more than 200 million predicted 3D structures, covering nearly the entire protein universe
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NewsHow to put an end to ‘forever chemicals’ and annihilate PFAS pollution
To fight the planet’s persistent perfluorinated problem new and repurposed technologies are being rolled out
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NewsUS chemical industry responsible for 25% of the country’s GDP
National Academies finds chemical research has ‘outsized economic value’
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BusinessChemours sues over US PFAS safety limit
Fluoropolymer maker appeals new safety standard for GenX, calling it ‘scientifically unsound’
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BusinessCalifornia advances plans to make its own insulin
Governor commits $100 million to develop low-cost insulin and build manufacturing facility to strengthen drug’s supply chain
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NewsFirst James Webb Space Telescope images provide taste of astrochemistry still to come
Observatory off to bright start revealing chemical make-up of the universe
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BusinessSecond Theranos executive convicted of fraud
Blood testing startup president Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani defrauded both investors and patients
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OpinionJacqueline Barton: ‘I want to focus on the good stuff’
The Caltech chemist talks about her life as a New Yorker and female scientific powerhouse
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NewsSacked US professor given a year in prison for lying about his China links
An ex-electrical engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas sentenced for not disclosing the two dozen patents he filed in China
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NewsUS environment agency announces new safety limits for fluorinated chemicals
Regulator lowers advisory drinking water levels for two best known PFAS by five orders of magnitude
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ResearchSpider webs record severity of microplastic pollution in cities
Plastic content found to make up as much as a tenth of a web’s total weight
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BusinessData reveals disparities in US refinery benzene emissions
Monitoring shows several facilities consistently exceed federal action levels
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NewsIChemE’s chief executive to step down
Jon Prichard will leave the Institution of Chemical Engineers at the end of September to head the Mineral Products Association
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ResearchThese 15 molecules trigger Covid smell disorder
Researchers identify compounds that trigger parosmia, the condition that makes coffee smell like burning rubbish
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OpinionCarolyn Bertozzi: ‘Shooting hoops is very meditative’
The celebrated chemical biologist who dreamed of being a rock star before inventing the field of bioorthogonal chemistry
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NewsNorway sacks its research council’s board over financial mismanagement
Norwegian research funding agency faces massive deficits, leading the government to freeze new research awards and launch an investigation
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PodcastA Taste for Poison by Neil Bradbury – Book club
Learning about chemistry through poisons and murders
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NewsChinese city seeks to lure top scientific talent with housing subsidies
Wuxi is offering incentives worth £1.2 million to get Nobel laureates and other science superstars to move there
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NewsUkrainian researchers persevering amid war
Publishing, lecturing and lab work continues for a family of chemists in Kyiv