All United States of America articles – Page 17
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News
Trump’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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Podcast
Livermorium
Meet the Mayor of Livermore, California, and discover how his city has been immortalised on the periodic table
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News
US 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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Careers
Keeping Austin weird
Your guide to the Lone Star State’s capital ahead of the 2018 AAAS meeting
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News
Clean 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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News
Community 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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News
Number 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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News
US government shutdown ends, but problems for science persist
The compromise that allowed the government to reopen is still worrying the nation’s research community
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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