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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Jan 14
C&EN’s Weekly Newsletter has evolved. Meet C&EN Elements, redesigned to deliver the essential developments in chemistry across research, industry, and policy: connect.discoveracs.org/weeklynewsle...

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The essential chemistry newsletter. A concise weekly briefing from C&EN, covering the research, policy, and industry developments that matter most to chemists.
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The American Chemical Society updated eight of its policy statements in 2025. These statements reflect ACS’s official positions on important issues and provide a way to help address national and global challenges. cen.acs.org/acs-news/ACS... #chemsky
ACS updates policy statements on employment, peer review, and 6 other topics
8 statements were updated in 2025, including better alignment with employment nondiscrimination standards and peer review practices
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February 18, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Lovely C&EN @cenmag.bsky.social story on the history and personal impact of the cancer drug Taxol. After spending recent years deciphering how yew trees, our source for Taxol, synthesize this lifesaving drug, it’s so nice to see it in the larger context #secmet #medsky
Plants are amazing chemists.
Paclitaxel saved my life. New discoveries could boost supply
After decades, scientists have finally pieced together the 23-step biosynthetic pathway to produce this cancer drug
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February 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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As the American Chemical Society marks its 150th year, the ACS Board remains firmly committed to supporting science and scientists. cen.acs.org/acs-news/Com... #chemsky
Comment: Our ACS community—and you—shaping the future of science
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February 18, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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As always @markpeplow.bsky.social's stories spark curiosity, but this one about cuprocene also sparked debate: sandwich or hot dog? Well, cuprocene is definitively a sandwich. If you're looking for something to argue about, this californium complex seems more hot-doggish: cen.acs.org/physical-che...
February 18, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Kerisha Bowen, a litigator and patent prosecutor, uses her background in chemistry to help clients get access to information they otherwise could not.

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Career Ladder: Kerisha Bowen
This litigator and patent prosecutor uses her background in chemistry to help clients get access to information they otherwise could not
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February 18, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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This is the story of how green chemistry emerged, and why the future of sustainability depends on what scientists are taught to anticipate.

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February 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Sustainability is often framed as a moral question. In chemistry, it is more accurately a technical one.

In this video, John Warner shares how a tragic life experience changed his perspective on his work in the lab. buff.ly/ZKDmTXP
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February 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Feb. 17 Business Watch: A California soda ash plant to close; Current Chemicals launches from GE Lighting

Here’s what we’re watching in chemistry business news this week: cen.acs.org/business/Feb...

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Feb. 17 Business Watch: A California soda ash plant to close; Current Chemicals launches from GE Lighting
Here’s what we’re watching in chemistry business news this week
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February 18, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Betavoltaics! Its like photovoltaic electricity generation with β particles from radioactive decay instead of photons. And folks with some serious backing are trying to bring it to market as a battery. Read more in @cenmag.bsky.social . #nuclear #startups #news #chemsky

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Project Omega comes out of stealth with nuclear batteries and recycling
Betavoltaic batteries will lead the way to nuclear-waste recycling, cofounder Staff Sheehan says
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February 17, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Researchers have devised an aluminum complex that undergoes a full catalytic cycle. The metal switches between two different oxidation states to assemble substituted benzene rings from alkynes. cen.acs.org/synthesis/ca...

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Aluminum learns to ride a redox cycle Main-group metal performs like a transition-metal catalyst to build aromatics from alkynes
February 18, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Cuprocene is the first neutral, stable copper metallocene, created by a team led by William J. Evans, an organometallic chemist at the University of California, Irvine. cen.acs.org/synthesis/cu...

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Copper finally joins the metallocene club More than 70 years after ferrocene’s discovery, cuprocene fills a long-standing gap in the sandwich menu by Mark Peplow, special to C&EN
February 17, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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On Feb. 11, women in science, government officials, and private sector representatives from around the globe gathered at the UN Headquarters in New York for the 11th International Day of Women and Girls in Science Assembly.

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ACS Portland Local Section member attends 11th International Day of Women and Girls in Science Assembly
The UN gathering focused on conversations around inclusivity of women in AI, social sciences, STEM, and finance
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February 17, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society has named Timothy M. Swager the 2026 recipient of the Theodore Richards Medal, a medal recognizing “conspicuous achievement in chemistry.” cen.acs.org/acs-news/Tim... #chemsky 🧪
Timothy Swager named 2026 Theodore Richards Medal recipient
Swager is being recognized for his work with functional organic and organometallic materials
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February 17, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Project Omega recently came out of stealth with a working prototype of its first product, a small battery running on strontium-90 decay that could power microprocessors in remote locations for years on end. cen.acs.org/energy/nucle... #chemsky 🧪
Project Omega comes out of stealth with nuclear batteries and recycling
Betavoltaic batteries will lead the way to nuclear-waste recycling, cofounder Staff Sheehan says
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February 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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After a boom in the 2010s, the North American petrochemical industry finds itself in a long downturn, and its feedstock advantage over the rest of the world is narrowing: cen.acs.org/business/pet...

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The party is over for North American petrochemical makers
February 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will recognize 19 individuals across a range of scientific fields including physical, biological, social, and medical sciences for their achievements. cen.acs.org/acs-news/Nat...
National Academy of Sciences honors scientific achievement across fields with 2026 award winners
Major contributions include those in enzyme function, geometric representation theory, earthquake science, and more
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February 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Andrew Oddy is known for developing the namesake Oddy test, which celebrated its 50-year anniversary in 2025. The accelerated aging method helps museums establish whether the materials they use in display cases might damage metal artifacts. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
For 50 years, his test has been saving museum artifacts
Andrew Oddy looks back on his career as Keeper of Conservation at the British Museum and the exposure test that bears his name
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February 16, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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Scientists don’t indulge their musical proclivities only through their lab work. Many are also musicians. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Music inspires proteins and scientists alike
A symphony of proteins and an orchestra of scientists
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February 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a small molecule for a rare blood disorder called erythropoietic protoporphyria. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
FDA rejects drug for rare blood disorder
Bitopertin, an early recipient of a new priority voucher, could still be considered for traditional approval
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February 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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We’ve been consciously working to include diverse voices in our pages, and that work will continue. Check out our editorial written in 2020. cen.acs.org/policy/CEN-s...

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C&EN stands in solidarity with communities of color
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February 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Researchers have created an organic molecule that stores a record amount of photon energy in its chemical bonds and releases it as heat on demand. cen.acs.org/energy/solar...

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Engineered molecule stashes enough sunlight to boil water months later
February 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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The Biennial Conference on Chemical Education 2026 (BCCE 2026) is seeking abstract submissions from educators, researchers, and practitioners. cen.acs.org/acs-news/202...
2026 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education seeks abstracts
The deadline to submit is March 1
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February 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Food chains in the coral reefs of the Caribbean are up to 70% shorter today than in the past, and fish living there have a much more limited selection of items to eat. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Coral reef food chains cut short by human activity
Creatures in these marine ecosystems have a much more limited menu compared with 7,000 years ago
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February 15, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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The latest release of files relating to Jeffrey Epstein includes yet more examples of how entwined the financier and child sex offender was with the scientific establishment. cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

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What science should learn from the Epstein files The release of documents reveals an asymmetry in the support for ethical research funding
February 15, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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The US Food and Drug Administration is reassessing the safety of butylated hydroxyanisole, a preservative commonly used in cereals, potato chips, frozen meals, and processed meats. cen.acs.org/policy/chemi... #chemsky 🧪
FDA reassesses BHA safety as states target the preservative
The agency plans to review other food additives, including butylated hydroxytoluene and azodicarbonamide next
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February 15, 2026 at 2:17 PM