Rebecca Trager
Senior US Correspondent at Chemistry World
US Correspondent for @ChemistryWorld, so expect science policy during working hours (views my own though).
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5 days ago |
chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel – a prominent research institution that is home to about 2500 scientists, students, technicians and scientific support staff – was devastated by Iranian missiles on 15 June. The planetary sciences building, which houses geochemistry labs among other chemistry programmes, was effectively destroyed in the attack. Damage was also sustained to other nearby facilities.
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1 week ago |
chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
As chemistry departments in the UK have been closing, shrinking and merging in recent years, similar pressures are increasingly affecting American universities too. There is now serious concern that chemistry programmes in the US could face a similar fate. This comes as the chairs of three dozen US chemistry departments are warning in a letter in Sciencethat they are ‘deeply concerned’ about the state of their subject.
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1 week ago |
chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
Librarians and physicists at the University of St Andrews in the UK have developed a portable device that can quickly and cheaply detect the presence of toxic pigments in Victorian-era book bindings. Source: © University of St Andrews/Edward Martin The researchers developed the detector to identify a bright green pigment known as emerald greenthatmay contain arsenic.
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2 weeks ago |
chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
Twenty of the world’s top experts in per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have serious concerns about a project to redefine this family of environmentally persistent chemicals that is being led by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac). The critics anticipate that this new definition of PFAS will likely be narrower and they question the motivations of those behind the effort.
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3 weeks ago |
chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
Two Chinese nationals have been charged with smuggling a plant pathogen into the US for research at a University of Michigan laboratory, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on 3 June. The couple has also been charged with making false statements and visa fraud.
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The defense for Charles Lieber, the former head of Harvard's chemistry department who allegedly hid his millions of dollars in research funding from China, has rested its case. Closing arguments are in, and a verdict could come as soon as this afternoon.
My latest piece about the election, which ran yesterday.
It's been a long wait for the result of the US election but it's finally in. https://t.co/b6IyssqaZg
"We need to farm for innovation as we would for a crop that our society needs to survive," MIT President Rafael Reif tells a National Academy of Sciences symposium. #endlessfrontier #chemistryworld
