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Awards

Priestley Medal address 2025: A random (mostly) uphill walk

A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner Frances H. Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology.


Employment

Chemistry majors, set to graduate in May, stress over their futures

Federal funding cuts to universities are another hurdle in a challenging career course for young people




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Research Funding

Trickles of layoff plans at EPA, NIH hint at big cuts

Most US federal agencies have not released their reduction-in-force plans, but leaked documents show EPA’s proposal to kill its research arm


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Art & Artifacts

Radioisotopes could help reveal details about mammal evolution

Better dates for fossils from Turkey may provide hints for paleontological debates


Xofluza better for treating bird flu than Tamiflu, in mice

The antiviral, which is given as single-dose treatment, is FDA approved

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Catalysis

More cross-coupling with less metal

Low-cost sodium salt may enable chemists to assemble molecules more efficiently and safely


2 ways to stick nitrogen into alkenes

2 new methods expand synthetic chemists’ options for cutting double bonds and installing new bonds to nitrogen