Let algae do the dirty work. Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are developing biodiesel from microalgae grown in wastewater. The project is doubly “green” because algae consume nitrates ...

Researchers created a special kind of algae that can grab microscopic plastic pollution out of water almost like a magnet.

A federal Department of Energy laboratory has developed a quicker, more efficient way to convert algae into natural gas and is taking it to market under a licensing agreement between a pair of ...

Engineers have created a chemical system that continually produces useful crude oil minutes after they pour in raw algae material -- a green paste with the consistency of pea soup. The technology ...

There's a new trend sprouting among local off-gridders, urban farmers, DIY scientists and Burning Man fanatics: home-grown algae. This movement is being spearheaded by Aaron Baum, 40, a Harvard and ...

Plant scientist Dario Leister and his team are investigating how cyanobacteria adapt to rapidly changing light intensities.

If you stand on a beach in India or Thailand, you’ll likely see dozens of flip-flops wash up onto the shore. An estimated three billion end up in waterways or the ocean every single year, choking sea ...

SEQUIM — Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Marine Sciences Laboratory are turning algae inside out to find the best biofuel possible. Dr. Michael Huesemann, a lead researcher, ...

Does algae have something to say? John Burns, senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, seems to think so. A scanning electron microscope image of C. paradoxa, the ...

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The outlook for coral reefs in our warming world is truly dismal. The latest IPCC report stated that more than 99 percent of coral reefs will likely be lost if the world warms by 2°C—a level we are ...

Sara Volz won the Intel Science Fair for her work on growing algae that’s more efficient at making biofuels–and she does all her work in her bedroom. Nithin Tumma won the Science Talent Search last ...