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Researchers Looking for Catalyst That Allows Plants to Produce Hydrocarbons
Shanks, Iowa State’s Manley R. Hoppe Professor of Chemical Engineering, said some plants and algae produce hydrocarbons as a way to store carbon and energy….
Team Finds A Better Way To Watch Bacteria Swim
The new approach, described this month in Nature Methods, uses optical traps, microfluidic chambers and fluorescence to get an improved picture of how E. coli…
New ancient fungus finding suggests world's forests were wiped out in global catastrophe
The researchers behind the study, from Imperial College London and other universities in the UK, USA and The Netherlands, believe that the organisms were able…
Coal-mining hazard resembles explosive volcanic eruption
New research by scientists at the University of Michigan and Peking University in Beijing, China, suggests that the outbursts occur through a process very…
Death by Light
The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which…
Strategy outlined for growing bioenergy while protecting wildlife
A study described in the October issue of BioScience identifies diverse native prairie as holding promise for yielding bioenergy feedstocks while minimizing…
