Congress is poised to overhaul the nation’s broken chemical regulations for the first time in four decades. And in an era of bitter partisan strife and historic legislative futility, it could happen with broad agreement from Democrats and Republicans, environmental groups and industry lobbyists.

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‘This country has the best free speech protections in the world… and you don’t want to erode those,’ said the Amazon.com CEO.

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Real-life YouTube superheroes Hannah Hart and Grace Helbig take on villains, sexism and Hollywood in “Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.”

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On 30th April 2016, Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner, Sir Harry Kroto, passed away. Well known for his work with nanocarbon materials, he contributed to both science and society. Here, I take a look at some personal highlights about Kroto’s life and work.

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Copper Oxide nanowires grown on a micro-hotplate between two copper microstructures pave the way for miniature gas sensors that can detect carbon monoxide even at low concentration that could one day soon be saving lives.

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Advanced Micro Devices has already told us that 2016 was going to be the year of graphics, but the reality is that they also have a lot going on in their CPU and APU division as well. In fact, in addition to Advanced Micro Devices’s newly announced 7th Generation APUs in 2016, the company is also expected to launch their new Zen CPU cores which are being eagerly awaited by many in the industry. Zen won’t be in high-volume until 2017, so tweaks to the current generation is important. AMD’s 7th generation APUs show that even though we are constantly paying attention to architectural improvements when it comes to CPUs, there are still plenty of platform improvements and tweaks that can be made to squeeze additional performance out of it. It may not get the headlines, but it drives revenue, something the company needs now.

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June 4, the day China hopes the world will forget, comes this year with the usual memorials in spots sympathetic to the pro-democracy protesters who died on that date 27 years ago under gunfire from troops sent by the Beijing government. Hundreds have marched in Hong Kong and events are being scheduled this week in Taipei and Washington.

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At Computex 2016, AMD has pulled back the curtain on its Radeon RX 480 graphics card, powered by its new 14nm Polaris architecture and launching June 29.

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