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Chemistry World October 20, 2015 Richard Massey	Uncorking the chemical potential of wine waste Italian scientists have devised an innovative and economically feasible biorefinery that can squeeze more chemicals out of the mountains of grape waste produced during wine production.
National Defense November 2015 Bradel & Ralph	Justice Memo Calls for Absolute Cooperation The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is a statute aimed at eliminating corporate bribery of foreign government officials. A defense contractor doing work overseas must be familiar with its tenets.
Chemistry World October 16, 2015 James Urquhart	Microporous copper silicate sucks up carbon dioxide A carbon capturing microporous copper silicate material has been created that could offer a cheaper and simpler way of capturing carbon dioxide from the gas flues of fossil fuel power plants.
National Defense November 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Army Focuses Research on Uncertain Future What will be needed is a slew of new cutting edge technologies to give soldiers an advantage.
Chemistry World October 15, 2015 Emma Stoye	Cobalt could cut costs for pharma ingredients A new kind of cobalt catalyst can be used in the hydrogenation of esters and carboxylic acids to alcohols without the need for extremely high temperatures or expensive precious metals.
Chemistry World October 14, 2015 Emma Cooper	Calcium carbide replaces explosive acetylene in organic synthesis Scientists have replaced explosive acetylene with cheap and benign calcium carbide to make common small organic molecules in a safer, cheaper and more atom-economical way, and at scale.
Chemistry World October 14, 2015 Tim Wogan	Displacing precious metals in solar cells A new iron-based complex to sensitize large-bandgap semiconductors in dye-sensitized solar cells has been produced by researchers in Sweden.
Chemistry World October 13, 2015 Rebecca Trager	DuPont found liable for cancer case DuPont faces thousands of lawsuits over emissions of perfluorooctanoic acid into the Ohio river
Fast Company November 2015 Corinne Iozzio	So You Want Sustainable Housing? Try Shipping Containers Dutch startup Sustainer Homes is attempting to eliminate at least some of the difficulty by producing the world's first off-the-shelf, zero-impact dwelling.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	China Allegedly Arrested Hackers To Comply With The U.S. Government's Demands Whether China will actually prosecute the hackers is a whole other issue; it's possible the country only made the arrests to skirt the economic sanctions that President Obama was lording over China.
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