“This year’s prize is about taking the chemical experiment to cyberspace,” the Nobel Committee announced this morning, before giving this year’s chemistry prize to three scientists for their work on computer models of chemical interactions. Read more
A Taiwanese court will rule on 4 September in a libel lawsuit filed by a petrochemical company against an environmental engineer whose studies had suggested that a plant operated by the company was causing higher cancer rates in its vicinity. Read more
European moves to temporarily ban the use of three insecticides linked to declines in bee populations have been met with legal action from two of the world’s biggest agricultural companies. Read more
The pharmaceutical industry has signalled its willingness to open up the vast reservoirs of research data held by its companies this week. But campaigners and researchers pushing for more access to clinical trial data say the moves are little and late. Read more
At the moment of his death, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda had a prostate cancer in advanced state, with extended metastasis, according to the first analysis of his remains, carried on by the Chilean Legal Medical Service (SML). The results were delivered yesterday to Mario Carroza, the prosecution judge who is investigating the cause of the Nobel Laureate’s death in 1973. Read more
Chemistry professor Patrick Harran, of the University of California, Los Angeles, will face trial on three counts of violating health and safety standards over the death of 23-year-old research assistant Sheharbano Sangji more than four years ago, a Los Angeles court judge ordered on 26 April. Read more
The world’s most extensive chemical safety regulation, implemented in Europe 5 years ago, is working well, according to a review published today by the European Commission. Read more
Brian K. Kobilka and Robert J. Lefkowitz have won this year’s chemistry Nobel for their work “crucial for understanding how G-protein–coupled receptors function”. Read more
The South Korean government on Monday designated the area around a chemical spill in the southeastern city of Gumi a special disaster zone, after more than 3,000 people were injured. Read more
A ten year court battle waged by the world’s largest scientific society reached a critical juncture today when the Ohio Supreme Court handed down itslong-awaited verdict in ACS versus Leadscope, a case that began in 2002 when the non-profit American Chemical Society sued three former employees of its highly lucrative Chemical Abstracts Service, accusing them of stealing its intellectual property and using it to start Leadscope, a chemical information company based in Columbus, Ohio. Read more
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