Chemistry
Tanzania's populist President John Magufuli has died at 61
President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died
The Latest: FBI says probe of Capitol officer death ongoing
The FBI director is declining to comment on the cause of the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who collapsed after responding to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and died the next day
2 scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing tool
Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing likened to “molecular scissors” that offer the promise of one day curing inherited diseases
Former student burned in class experiment recounts horror
A former high school student severely burned when a chemistry class experiment went horrifically wrong testified at a civil trial that he remembered feeling the fire eat away at his skin
Maine becomes 1st state to ban single-use foam containers
Maine has banned single-use food and drink containers made from polystyrene foam, commonly known as Styrofoam, becoming the first state to do so
Chem professor on leave after Nazi gas chamber exam question
Middlebury College says a chemistry professor who asked students in a written exam to calculate the lethal dose of a poisonous gas used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust has taken a leave from the college
New Jersey orders cleanup of clothing, cookware chemicals
New Jersey is ordering five companies that manufacture chemicals used to stain-proof clothing and produce non-stick cookware to spend what could be hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up contamination from the substances
Manfred Eigen, 1967 Nobel chemistry laureate, dies at 91
A German research institute says that Manfred Eigen, who shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1967 for his work on extremely fast chemical reactions, has died
Correction: United Nations-Periodic Table story
Correction: United Nations-Periodic Table story
Bangladeshi man facing deportation gets reprieve until 2022
The case against a Kansas man who is fighting deportation to his native Bangladesh will go on until at least 2022