C&EN

White House moves to kill chemical safety board, despite industry support

For the fourth time, President Donald J. Trump has proposed eliminating the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), an independent body that investigates the causes of significant ...
The New York Times

White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot’s 5th Anniversary

A new web page on the official White House site blames the Capitol Police and Democrats for the pro-Trump mob riot, absolving the president of responsibility and calling participants “innocent.” By ...
C&EN

States expected to leapfrog feds on food-chemical regulation

A photo showing a child’s hands in front of a school lunch on a paper tray, set on the metal serving line. A child gets lunch at school in Bowie, Maryland, on Oct. 22, 2024. States are passing more ...
GitHub

HtmlRAG: HTML is Better Than Plain Text for Modeling Retrieval Results in RAG Systems

We propose HtmlRAG, which uses HTML instead of plain text as the format of external knowledge in RAG systems. To tackle the long context brought by HTML, we propose Lossless HTML Cleaning and Two-Step ...