Recent data from the Pew Charitable Trusts and other organizations have indicated that we, as a society, have entered a period when people are not sure who or what they should trust, and they often embrace as fact any belief that resonates with their own perception and intuition. My aim is to provide our members with strategies and skills to engage in constructive dialogues with nonscientists—friends, neighbors, family members—who might be skeptical of science.
by Sophie Rovner, ACS staff | December 30, 2022
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by Bethany Halford | November 13, 2022
The world’s largest chemical maker, BASF, saw revenues increase nearly 12% during the quarter versus the year-earlier period—mostly because of higher selling prices. Volumes slid for nearly all its segments except agricultural chemicals. BASF’s adjusted earnings rose 11%. That figure eliminates one-time items, in particular the firm’s financial interest—by way of its Wintershall Dea oil and gas unit—in the recently destroyed Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which carries natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
by Alexander H. Tullo | November 03, 2022
This narrowing of possible elements mirrors how geochemists look at the periodic table. They tend to divide elements into categories linked to Earth’s history and the part of the planet in which the elements often appear. Earth, like other bodies in today’s solar system, started out as a hot ball that expanded as it was bombarded with planetoids and other objects.
by Katherine Bourzac | October 02, 2022
“I had been in a flat, gray, featureless desert of sensory input and also experienced profound depression during that 2-year period,” she says. Even years later, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread around the world, she was still noticing new smells returning, so “when I got my first case of COVID and it put a dent in that recovered sense of smell, the anxiety was greater than the actual issue,” she says.
by Laura Howes | September 26, 2022
Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), Japan’s top business organization, noted in a March report that “Japan has extremely few companies that have achieved dramatic growth in a short period of time compared to Europe, the US, and China, and this is a challenge for strengthening the competitiveness of the Japanese economy.”
by Katsumori Matsuoka, special to C&EN | August 15, 2022
For the second quarter, the world’s largest chemical maker, BASF, posted a 16% increase in sales and a 17% increase in profits versus the same period in 2021. Elemental to the company’s gains were its chemicals and materials businesses, which saw sales increases of 27% and 30%, respectively, mostly due to higher product selling prices.
by Alexander H. Tullo | August 04, 2022