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The outcome of the midterms and an influx of federal legislators with science backgrounds offer a chance to start reversing ...

On Nov. 9, the US Senate voted to advance to floor debate the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), a permitting-reform package supported by various players in the chemical ...

Abuja, Nigeria— On Oct. 20, Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case in more than a decade: infection in a woman who flew to Abuja, the capital, from Entebbe, Uganda. She spent several days in a private ...

Sumitomo Chemical also raised its full-year earnings forecast. The company expects revenue to exceed its initial projection ...

Into the early 1900s, prominent scientists were unsure about the existence of atoms. Jean Perrin’s calculations of Avogadro’s ...

Light and voltage help platinum break down formic acid faster than theoretically possible ...

As the chair of the Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs (CCPA), I spend a lot of time thinking about how to bring scientists into policy conversations and, just as importantly, how to bring ...

As a job candidate, you should not pay for anything, and especially not in advance. Starter kits, trainings or certifications, and “insider information” often turn out to be worthless or freely ...

A ballot measure includes billions for biomedical research, but criteria for who gets the money are prompting concerns among ...