Biofuels

Chain restaurants, cattle industry, U.S. congressmen have had enough of corn-based fuels that are pushing up prices throughout the food chain.

22 | June 17, 2013 11:11am | By Mark Halper

Metabolix has a plants-to-plastics vision, and they hope to sell their polymer for less than half of today's prices.

4 | June 6, 2013 12:48pm | By Janet Fang

Will black carbon cause the death of space tourism before it has taken off?

10 | May 16, 2013 10:49am | By Charlie Osborne

The bloom is sliding off the rose of renewables. Electric and hybrid vehicles losing favor too. What about nuclear?

31 | May 16, 2013 4:51am | By Mark Halper

Would we then be able to feed the whole world? Maybe. Scientists have found a way to turn indigestible cellulose into starch.

33 | April 18, 2013 5:23pm | By Janet Fang

$2.1 billion -- the figure that care, attention and innovation saved airlines last year.

1 | April 9, 2013 9:46am | By Charlie Osborne

As people push against the limits of what nature freely offers us in terms of fresh water, climate stability and more, how can we use our resources to achieve the greatest return for society?

3 | April 1, 2013 3:00am | By Laura Shin

How do you decaffeinate water that's polluted by our widespread use of caffeine? Engineer some bacteria who literally live off caffeine. They'll eat it.

1 | March 28, 2013 10:51am | By Janet Fang

Just when it looked like the biofuels industry was starting to make some progress, one of its own has withdrawn its IPO due to difficult market conditions.

8 | March 25, 2013 3:24pm | By Kirsten Korosec

"The Disappearing Package" shows how with a simple re-design, much of a product's leftover rubbish can be eliminated completely.

11 | March 25, 2013 4:23am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

The latest outlooks from BP and ExxonMobil project a rosy future for oil, while bottom-up forecasts see world oil production declining before 2020. Who you gonna believe?

63 | March 20, 2013 1:43am | By Chris Nelder

KiOR, the advanced biofuels company that makes fuel from pine wood chips, has made its first commercial shipment of cellulosic diesel.

March 19, 2013 5:04pm | By Kirsten Korosec

Can biominerals sourced from snails improve lithium-ion batteries and solar cell concentration?

1 | March 17, 2013 12:00am | By Charlie Osborne

The nation's most prestigious science competition for high school students awarded $1.25 million in 2013.

3 | March 13, 2013 8:25pm | By Laura Shin

Transatomic's founders look more Twitterati than Nuclearati. But their "molten salt reactor" trumps great ideas from across all energy areas at this week's investor/entrepreneur summit.

7 | March 1, 2013 5:31am | By Mark Halper

An MIT professor recently unveiled an advanced 3D printing process that allows objects to assemble themselves.

7 | March 1, 2013 3:47am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

While an IPO puts firms in a better position to innovate, other priorities take hold.

2 | February 14, 2013 4:23am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

According to a new study, California is the preferred home for companies focusing on biofuel production.

5 | February 7, 2013 5:15am | By Charlie Osborne

"The Morning Briefing" is SmaertPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about biofuel research and opinion.

4 | February 7, 2013 12:58am | By Charlie Osborne

An unassuming invention may be a gamechanger for designers and manufacturers.

7 | February 5, 2013 4:05am | By Tuan C. Nguyen