Today's nearly $70 billion U.S. biofuels economy is powered by two technology toolboxes. Biochemical technologies—used to produce around 17 billion gallons of ethanol annually—leverage microorganisms ...

Thermal batteries, such as the one being developed by Cache Energy, store heat instead of electricity, and can be recharged ...

Energy generated from the sun, wind and other renewable sources naturally varies – when the supply dips, there’s less electricity available to power and heat our homes. Being able to store it is ...

This familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviors ...

Study shows biodegradable plastics offer superior chemical recyclability and economic value for sustainable waste management ...

An international team of scientists proved the never-before-seen molecule's exotic nature using a quantum computer, ...

Alkaline industrial wastewaters from steel or cement production are ideally suited to bind and sequester carbon dioxide (CO₂) chemically, safely, and for the long term. This is the result of a study ...

Bharathram says production of speciality chemicals and agrochemical intermediates is down 20-40%, and in case conditions ...

A team of academic and industrial partners focuses on the more sustainable production of key chemicals and pharmaceutical ...

Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Other teams are investigating how surface area and velocity during impact might govern charge transfer, and how the breaking ...

The vacuum ultraviolet region is the area of the electromagnetic spectrum lying between X-rays and visible light. It is ...

Biology researchers in multiple labs are on an extended bathroom break. That's because ongoing testing in Canada and France is using urine in an innovative microbial fuel cell to ...