If you want to keep up with chemistry in the news (academia, industry, government), start with sites listed below. These sites offer e-mail alerts, and in most cases some RSS feeds. You can also run and save searches in Google News, or search Academic Search Complete and filter the results to see magazine, newspaper, and trade publications.
Most of these articles and news items will cover one or more articles that have recently been published in the scientific literature, but usually written and explained in a way to reach a broader audience than simply other researchers in that field.