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By way of a light-driven bacterium, biochemists are a step closer to cleanly converting harmful carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion into usable fuels. Using the phototropic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris as a biocatalyst, the scientists generated methane from carbon dioxide in one enzymatic step.
Aug 25th, 2016
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Researchers have combined components that have already proven effective in industry in order to develop a robust and effective system. Their prototype is made up of three interconnected, new-generation, crystalline silicon solar cells attached to an electrolysis system that does not rely on rare metals.
Aug 25th, 2016
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Scientists hope to improve on the 0.4 miles that most electric cars get per minute of charge.
Aug 24th, 2016
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Bubble-wrapped structure requires no mirrors or lenses to focus the sun's heat.
Aug 22nd, 2016
Read morePlastic food packaging not only creates a lot of non-recyclable, non-biodegradable waste, but thin plastic films are not great at preventing spoilage. And some plastics are suspected of leaching potentially harmful compounds into food. To address these issues, scientists are now developing a packaging film made of milk proteins - and it is even edible.
Aug 22nd, 2016
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Researchers are turning to naturally occurring fungi to drive an environmentally friendly recycling process to extract cobalt and lithium from tons of waste batteries.
Aug 22nd, 2016
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Scientists have developed a new way to make synthetic rubber. And once this material is discarded, it can be easily degraded back to its chemical building blocks and reused in new tires and other products.
Aug 22nd, 2016
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Engineering researchers are using biochar, an inexpensive carbon-rich material and a new method of creating the porous surface needed to capture electricity to reduce the cost of supercapacitors.
Aug 18th, 2016
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Electric vehicles can meet drivers' needs enough to replace 90 percent of vehicles now on the road.
Aug 16th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have found that BPS is just as harmful to the reproductive system as the chemical it replaced. BPS damages a woman's eggs and at lower doses than BPA.
Aug 10th, 2016
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Greenhouse gases are already having an accelerating effect on sea level rise, but the impact has so far been masked by the cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, according to a new study.
Aug 10th, 2016
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Battery500 Consortium to contribute to effort to make next-generation electric vehicle batteries.
Aug 9th, 2016
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Researchers conduct feasibility studies to assess potential for making geothermal energy-powered desalination and cooling a reality.
Aug 8th, 2016
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Researchers have developed an oxygen-assisted aluminum/carbon dioxide power cell that uses electrochemical reactions to both sequester the carbon dioxide and produce electricity.
Aug 4th, 2016
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Researchers report a new approach and a new catalyst that can produce not just hydrogen but also valuable chemicals, including the most common ingredient in nail polish.
Aug 3rd, 2016
Read moreAn engineering undergraduate has invented a new storage solution that could provide the missing-link needed for a renewable energy revolution.
Aug 2nd, 2016
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New system can identify how much power is being used by each device in a household.
Aug 1st, 2016
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For the first time, researchers have successfully measured in detail the flow of solar energy, in and between different parts of a photosynthetic organism. The result is a first step in research that could ultimately contribute to the development of technologies that use solar energy far more efficiently than what is currently possible.
Jul 19th, 2016
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