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February 15, 2016 Cover
Volume 94, Issue 7
COVER: This Dec. 22, 2008, aerial view shows the aftermath of a coal ash pond collapse at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston power plant in northeastern Tennessee, which unleashed more than 3.8 billion L of ash-laden water into the Emory River.
Volume 94, Issue 7
Sustainability: Electric utilities, environmentalists, researchers, and regulators converge on sustainable solutions for recycling waste from coal-fired power plants
COVER: This Dec. 22, 2008, aerial view shows the aftermath of a coal ash pond collapse at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston power plant in northeastern Tennessee, which unleashed more than 3.8 billion L of ash-laden water into the Emory River.
Credit: AP Photo/Wade Payne
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February 15, 2016 Issue
Volume 94, Issue 7
February 15, 2016 Issue, Vol. 94 | Iss. 7
Sustainability: Electric utilities, environmentalists, researchers, and regulators converge on sustainable solutions for recycling waste from coal-fired power plants
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Business
With the helium shortage in the past, scientists seek to ensure supplies of the cooling element and keep legacy instruments running (pp. 17-18)
Science & Technology
Without effective treatment steps to control corrosion, Flint’s water leached high levels of lead from the city’s pipes (pp. 26-29)
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Chinese Investigators Identify Cause Of Tianjin Explosion
Safety: Investigators make recommendations, spread blame around for deadly—and costly—tragedy
(p.5)How Lasers Make Buckyballs Look Like Superconductors
Materials: Postassium-doped fullerenes display signatures of superconductivity under infrared light
(p.6)Novartis Tags Price Of Heart Drug To Patient Outcomes
Pharmaceuticals: Deal with two insurers is an early foray into performance-based pricing
(p.6)Improving Protein Crystallography Using Smudges In X-Ray Diffraction Data
Spectroscopy: New technique takes advantage of long-unused data
(p.7)Obama requests $1.8 billion to fight Zika virus
Public health: Emergency funds would go to development of vaccines, diagnostics, and testing as well as to mosquito control
(p.7)Hitting Malaria In The Proteasome
Medicinal Chemistry: Inhibitor of cell’s protein-degrading machine kills the parasite without apparent toxicity in mice
(p.8)Yumanity Therapeutics Reaps $45 Million In Financing
Start-ups: Investors respond strongly to firm’s novel approach to neurodegenerative diseases
(p.8)Departments
Business
With the helium shortage in the past, scientists seek to ensure supplies of the cooling element and keep legacy instruments running
(pp. 17-18)
Cleaning product ingredient makers look to the personal care market for new ideas
(p.19)Concentrates
(pp. 15-16)
(pp. 15-16)- Chemours Plans Refrigerants
- Midwest Corn Thief Cops Guilty Plea
- SUNY Launches Big Chip Collaboration
- Altana Ups Beer Sealants In China
- PPG, Bridgestone Seek Better Tires
- After Scandal, Asahi Head Steps Down
- Mars Is Latest To Ax Synthetic Colors
- Partnership Targets Sodium-Ion Batteries
- Cysteine Production Planned For Japan
- Koch Invests In Pathway Biologic
- European Pharma Service Firms Expand
- U.K.’s Onyx Adds Labs And Chemists
- AbbVie Signs Deal With Synlogic
- Business Roundup
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Government & Policy
Scientific reviewers are challenging part of agency’s draft report
(pp. 21-22)
Science & Technology
Without effective treatment steps to control corrosion, Flint’s water leached high levels of lead from the city’s pipes
(pp. 26-29)
Solid-state techniques help fill in gaps where X-ray diffraction fails
(pp. 30-31)
Sustainability: Electric utilities, environmentalists, researchers, and regulators converge on sustainable solutions for recycling waste from coal-fired power plants
(pp. 10-14)
Química médica: Un inhibidor de la maquinaria celular encargada de la degradación de proteínas mata al parásito sin ninguna toxicidad aparente en ratones.
(p.8)Concentrates(pp. 23-24)
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- Copper Shines In Asymmetric Amine Synthesis
- Carbon Honeycombs