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Scientists are developing novel textiles from 100 % renewable and natural materials. Groundcovers and insect screens are among the numerous products targeted for application of the eco-friendly technology.
Jan 11th, 2013
Read moreWith heatwaves predicted to increase in intensity and duration, the importance of heat tolerant crops is becoming increasingly urgent.
Jan 10th, 2013
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Starting this month, NASA will send a remotely piloted research aircraft as high as 65,000 feet over the tropical Pacific Ocean to probe unexplored regions of the upper atmosphere for answers to how a warming climate is changing Earth.
Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreThe BOLERO program will identify the molecules with the most potential and will optimize their synthesis by selecting improved strains to increase production yields.
Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreGoogle Inc. is investing $200 million in a Texas wind farm, the Internet search leader's latest big bet on the future alternative energy.
Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreTree seeds, rather than biomass or fuel crop plants, could represent an abundant source of renewable energy.
Jan 9th, 2013
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How does mathematics improve our understanding of weather and climate? Can mathematicians determine whether an extreme meteorological event is an anomaly or part of a general trend? Presentations touching on these questions will be given at the annual national mathematics conference in San Diego, California.
Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreAllowing shareholders to be held liable for the damages that companies cause to the environment and people could help transform the world's energy system towards sustainability.
Jan 8th, 2013
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Cranfield University has developed a new approach for calculating the potential renewable energy derived from waste material, prior to incineration, which could save time and money for the energy and waste industries.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreWind power has become the third-largest electric power in China.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreResearch supports effectiveness of tree bark as novel sampling medium for contamination.
Jan 8th, 2013
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Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellow Anne Ruffing has engineered two strains of cyanobacteria to produce free fatty acids, a precursor to liquid fuels, but she has also found that the process cuts the bacteria's production potential.
Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreFrance has been held up, worldwide, as the forerunner in using nuclear fission to produce electricity. However, a third of the nation's nuclear reactors will need replacing in the next decade, and public opinion has shifted toward reducing reliance on nuclear power.
Jan 7th, 2013
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The signs of climate change are universally evident, but for French winemakers, already feeling the effects of competition from other countries, the year of volatile weather does not bode well.
Jan 7th, 2013
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The Amazon rainforest, energy grids, and cells in the human body share a troublesome property: they possess multiple stable states. When the world's largest tropical forest suddenly starts retreating in a warming climate, energy supply blacks out, or cells turn carcinogenic, complex-systems science understands this as a transition between two such states.
Jan 7th, 2013
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In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, nuclear-dependent Japan began shutting down its other reactors. Toshiya Okamura, a Tokyo Gas executive and visiting scholar at Stanford University, explains how the country survived the summer, and expresses deep concerns about this winter and his country's energy future.
Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreThese projects use innovative synthetic biological and chemical techniques to convert biomass into processable sugars that can be transformed into bioproducts and drop-in biofuels for cars, trucks, and planes.
Jan 5th, 2013
Read moreFor almost 30 years, researchers have sought to identify a particular enzyme that is involved in regulating electron transport during photosynthesis. A team of scientists has now found the missing link, which turns out to be an old acquaintance.
Jan 5th, 2013
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