All United States of America articles – Page 16
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News
Concern over vetting of US science grants by political appointee
National Academies speak out after news of Interior Department’s policy on grants worth more than $50,000 emerges
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Business
Non-profit generic drug company created
Intermountain Healthcare is leading an effort in the US to prevent drug shortages and end their skyrocketing prices
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News
Alarm sounded over three organophosphate pesticides
US fisheries agency concludes that chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion are highly toxic
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Podcast
Methaemoglobin and diaphorase 1
Kat Arney discovers the biological chemistry behind a colourful blood disorder
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News
America’s new tax law hits research universities
Warnings that taxing endowments of top universities under the overhauled tax code will threaten research
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News
NIH resumes funding for research to create more dangerous pathogens
US biomedical agency lifts three-year-old funding freeze on ‘gain-of-function’ studies
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News
The latest lethal injection row explained
Two US states plan to use untried drugs to execute prisoners
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News
Europe snatches laser lead from the US
The rise in high-intensity laser research in Europe has been ‘stunning, coordinated, and rapid’ over the last 20 years
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Opinion
A blueprint for colour-blind science
The US political climate is hostile to people of colour – but progress has been stagnant for decades
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News
US–Cuba diplomatic deterioration damaging scientific collaboration
Restrictions on travel and diplomatic tensions are harming free exchange of ideas
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Opinion
Geri Richmond: 'I was hesitant to use creativity in science'
Geri Richmond on motherhood, office space and funky chickens
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News
Senate eliminates EPA chemical risk assessment programme
EPA Integrated Risk Information System will dissolve if Senate spending bill is enacted
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News
Chemical plants urged to revise emergency plans
US chemical safety agency says the Arkema disaster caused by hurricane Harvey should serve as a warning to other companies
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News
Republican tax bill backed by industry but not science
Chemical industry says tax overhaul will be fairer, but science groups warn that it will harm research
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Business
China moves in on US shale gas
Alaska and West Virginia have welcomed investment from Chinese entities to develop US shale resources
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News
Trump’s pick for agriculture chief scientist bows out
Sam Clovis, the nominee for the US agriculture department’s head scientist post, withdraws to the relief of scientists and science groups
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News
EPA bans grantees from providing science advice
US science community and Congress unite to attack policy that prohibits many academic researchers serving on advisory committees
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News
US universities told to sort out postdoc job titles chaos
A range of job titles leave postdocs with varying salaries, benefits and training plans
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News
White House urged to consider climate change consequences
Weather events may have cost the US federal government over $350 billion
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News
Uproar over EPA’s plan to ban its grantees from science committees
EPA chief says members of its scientific advisory panels get ‘millions of dollars’ in grants from the agency, which poses conflicts of interest