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A UK-based start-up, co-founded by Monash University PhD graduate Dr Rajan Lakshman, has secured £150,000 in seed funding from Carbon13 Ventures to commercialize technology developed at Monash.

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LA PORTE, Texas — Investigators are working to find out what happened in the moments leading up to a deadly acid leak at a La Porte facility. It happened around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the LyondellBasell ...