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A potentially vast source of renewable energy sits just out of our grasp. Each year, more than 40 million tonnes of inedible plant material, including wheat stems, corn stover (the [...]

By the latter half of the 1980s, the worldwide chemical industry knew that it had to clean up its act: its environmental reputation was dismal. Still fresh in the public [...]

DNA sequencing is a technology on the move. In April, 454 Life Science, based in Branford, Connecticut, sequenced the entire genome of James Watson in two months for less than [...]

Solar cells can take sunlight and produce a current, giving instant power. But as soon as the Sun goes down, the lights go dim. If you could turn sunlight into [...]

Author(s): Katharine Sanderson [1] Critics of the US ethanol industry have long derided it as an environmentally questionable subsidy to Mid-western farmers that simply serves a transparently political purpose. Voters [...]

Would you put such trust in your bones to hold you up and move you around if you knew they were made from jelly and chalk? Hydroxyapatite is the inorganic, [...]

Author(s): Katharine Sanderson [illus. 1] For the past three months Joerg Schaefer, a physicist at the University of Wrzburg in Germany, has been waiting for a group of theoretical spectroscopists [...]

Talks that conference attendees could see in person are more likely to be cited than talks they most likely missed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]