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Eco Factor: New technology allows excess renewable energy to be converted into methane for cloudy, windless days. The major problem associated with any renewable energy generator, especially wind and solar power systems, is that they are highly...

The world's annual consumption of plastic materials has increased from around 5 million tons in the 1950s to much more then100 million tons today. People worldwide seem to have a love–hate affair with plastic. Although we are aware that plastic...

According to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, California and the Verenium Corporation, the abdomen of termites contain microbes that have now been tapped as a rich source of enzymes for improving the...

Wastes can be broadly segregated as organic and inorganic wastes. While organic wastes are those that are natural, like wastes from kitchens comprising vegetable skin, stalk etc, inorganic wastes are usually those with chemical components. So far, we.

With the increasing demands for fuels across the world, scientists are up with their gloves finding ways to expand lives of fuel reserves, beside alternative sources of energies. It is to the extent that scientists are banking on manipulating microbes to.

Now viruses will be sprayed on those of your favorite cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages! A combination of six viruses will not do the job of combating the common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year. The bacteria-killing virus-mix is designed..

The world's is severely suffering from energy woes. In the midst if this crisis, this finding can lead to a ground-breaking solution as alternative fuel. Tiny microbes that live inside termites may one day become a major source of fuel, according to...