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For US science policy, big shift ahead.

Here’s how Congress and Trump could affect the chemistry enterprise.

Here’s how Congress and Trump could affect the chemistry enterprise

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World chemical outlook 2017.

Business people are by nature optimists, and that was true a year ago when companies and economists forecast a buoyant 2016 for the global chemical economy. In the end, however, business didn’t live up to expectations.

Business people are by nature optimists, and that was true a year ago when companies and economists forecast a buoyant 2016 for the global chemical economy. In the end, however, business didn’t live up to expectations. U.S. chemical production rose a sluggish 1.6%, and European output didn’t grow at all. Overall economic growth slowed in China and India. Perhaps chastened, the Europeans have lowered their outlook for 2017. But in the U.S. and Asia, industry executives are once again calling for a good year ahead. Given the political uncertainty roiling much of the world, those executives would be wise to have a “plan B” at hand.

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Talented 12: Class of 2016.

This group of skilled young ‘operatives’ has been covertly using chemistry to safeguard the planet.

ACADEMIC FAMILY TREESLABORATORY LOVESTALENTED 12 BY THE NUMBERSQUIZ: GET TO KNOW THE TALENTED 12CLASS OF 2015: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?SUGGEST CANDIDATES FOR 2017

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Exxon, GT find way to cut carbon emissions for chemicals: Science.

Exxon Mobil and Georgia Tech researchers published findings of a breakthrough in the journal Science on Thursday, saying they had devised a way to slash carbon emissions from chemicals manufacturing by using reverse osmosis instead of heat to separate molecules.

Exxon Mobil and Georgia Tech researchers published findings of a breakthrough in the journal Science on Thursday, saying they had devised a way to slash carbon emissions from chemicals manufacturing by using reverse osmosis instead of heat to separate molecules.

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Can chemists turn pollution into gold?

Scientists are trying to convert carbon dioxide emissions into something of value—without using too much energy.

Scientists are trying to convert carbon dioxide emissions into something of value—without using too much energy

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Europe circles the circular economy.

Tempers flare over how to deal with hazardous chemicals in closed loop systems of the future.

Tempers flare over how to deal with hazardous chemicals in closed loop systems of the future

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