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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2 weeks ago |
chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
Among a flurry of reports about international students at US universities having their visas rescinded by the State Department for no apparent reason, a chemical engineering graduate student from Saudi Arabia studying at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is the latest to be caught up. The individual, whose name has not been released, was one of two at NCSU from Saudi Arabia who learned in late March that their student visas were cancelled without explanation.
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chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
‘Improperly stored’ pool chemicals reacted with water to release chlorine Source: © Peter Zay/Anadolu/Getty Images The US federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) has fined pool and spa chemicals producer BioLab nearly $61,500 for safety violations that led to an incident at its plant in Georgia in September 2024. Osha’s investigation concluded that ‘improperly stored hazardous chemicals’ caused the incident.
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3 weeks ago |
chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
The US National Academies, a non-profit organisation with roots going back to 1863 that provides the US government with evidence-based science and technology advice, has always been non-partisan. That’s why it is so significant that almost a third of its elected members have just joined together to issue a dire warning about the current state of America’s research enterprise.
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chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
Broad and high tariffs could mean severe job loses and supply chain disruption for chemistry-using industries Source: © Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg/Getty Images Sweeping new trade tariffs introduced by US president Donald Trump in dramatic fashion on 2 April could devastate the already struggling chemical industry in the US and beyond.
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chemistryworld.com | Rebecca Trager
Company says it will return to courts to fight talc cancer claims Source: © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A US bankruptcy court has denied Johnson & Johnson (J&J)’s third attempt to use a subsidiary’s bankruptcy to settle litigation over talc and cancer. The company now says it will abandon its bankruptcy settlement plan and return to the courts to fight the tens of thousands of lawsuits in North America claiming its talc products caused ovarian and other gynaecological cancers.
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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
