Elsevier launches Current Research journals  EurekAlert

Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, continues to expand its offering of gold open access titles with the launch of …

Closing In On a Non-sugar Sweetener — One Without a Weird Aftertaste – The Crux  Discover Magazine

New research into the molecular structure of a protein in the stevia plant could help researchers make a better artificial sweetener.

Coca-Cola, Pepsi highlight the 20 corporations producing the most ocean pollution  USA TODAY

About 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans, and some corporations treat them better than others.

National Cancer Institute boosts UH Cancer Center support to $8.4M  UH System Current News

The National Cancer Institute increased its support of the University of Hawaii Cancer Center from $5.7 million to $8.4 million and extended its NCI designation …

World peace through better science  Ledger Independent

Mankind has always strived to obtain the impossible. Perfect life. Perfect love. Perfect backswing. One of the supposedly unattainable quests for Homo …

Industrial ammonia production emits more CO₂ than any other chemical-making reaction. Chemists want to change that  Chemical & Engineering News

The Siemens green ammonia test plant uses wind power to convert hydrogen and nitrogen to ammonia. The Haber-Bosch process, which converts hydrogen …

Pew Latin American Fellows Program awardee to work with Texas A&M AgriLife Research | AgriLife  AgriLife Today

Dr. Fausto Ortiz-Morea has received funding from the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences to do research with Texas A&M AgriLife …

As the world grapples with plastic, the US makes more of it — a lot more  Center for Public Integrity

Minuscule pellets keep escaping plastic manufacturing sites, part of a bigger dilemma: How can we fix plastic waste problems amid a production boom?

Grundy Extension hosts STEM camp in Morris  Morris Daily Herald

Are you interested in doing something FUN this summer, like flying a mapping/weather balloon, building a “hackable” calculator or learning about spy sciences?

ACSH 2; Loonies, Lawyers & Activists 0  American Council on Science and Health

It’s been a good month for us at ACSH. Cox Media correctly defined us in a story about glyphosate in cereal and a media fact-checking group decided that we …