Scientists from Japan and China are exploring the use of the brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida, known as wakame as a means to extract organic and inorganic pollutants in seawater. After culturing...

In a study published in Nature Biotechnology, scientists discover that based on the genome analysis of Tricoderma reesei, the fungus has the genes required to break down plant cell walls, to simple...

Scientists have engineered a cyanobacteria to produce sugars which may be used as raw material for ethanol and designer fuels production. Nobles made the new cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green...

© mattdente To facilitate the conversion of cellulose from corn into ethanol, scientists have created a new genetically modified variety of corn, called Spartan Corn III, which bears a gene from a...

Researchers have demonstrated that a water treatment system using microorganisms called membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) is effective in eliminating the common contaminant chlorinated solvent...

The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has released a preliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy...

In the latest issue of the International Journal of Global Energy Issues, researchers report of an experimental device that use sunlight to convert glucose into hydrogen to power the cell, which...

University of Illinois researchers have found out that tropical maize, when grown in the US midwest, may be a far superior crop for biofuel production in comparison to corn. Early research results...

A study funded by the National Science Foundation suggests that Bt corn- a genetically-modified corn engineered to express a bacterial toxin which is poisonous to corn borers - may damage the ecology...

Researchers have patented a process that uses eggshells to absorb carbon dioxide in a durign hydrogen fuel production, including a unique method for peeling the collagen-containing membrane from the...

The University of New Hampshire has launched EcoLine, a first of a kind landfill gas project that will pipe enriched and purified gas from Waste Management's landfill in Rochester to the Durham...

Researchers from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech are developing transportable pyrolysis units that will convert poultry litter - a mixture of bedding, manure, feathers,...

Chemists have developed a method of purifying biodiesel made from vegetable oils, by removing glycerol, the main by-product of vegetable oil-based biodiesel, using ionic liquids made in part by...

Under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program for basic research on solar energy utilization, Yale Chemists and 12 other institutions will be sharing $12.8 million over three years to work on...

Through a two-stage process for turning biomass-derived sugar into 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF), University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor James Dumesic and colleagues have been able to transform sugar...

Engineers at Purdue University are developing robots that are able to make "educated guesses" and are better predictors of their environment and are able to better navigate. According to...

BioWorld Today has released BioWorld Biofuels Report 2007, a study of the current biofuels market, which includes insight into the history, statistics and forecasts. Examples of chart and...

The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) has been spearheaded by the Washington University in St. Louis to encourage and coordinate university-wide and...

Researchers are exploring the use of crab and lobster shells to power microbial fuel cells beneath the sea, which are used to power sensors for such measurements as temperature, pressure, salinity,...