chemical

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Companies have been trying to identify and develop new chemical weedkillers after leaning for decades on established chemicals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

That left U.S. chemical companies, which use cheap and abundant natural gas to make their plastic products, to boost production and raise prices at furious rates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

These findings, published in Nature, align with Wang's earlier work, which predicted the chemical consequences of such discharges.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Fellow chemical maker LyondellBasell LYB 3.77%increase; green up pointing triangle is enjoying a similar ride, with its stock up 84% so far this year after two years of decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

“Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee