Algae Used To Produce Green Plastics, Sans Petroleum
Green Sporks It's made of algae! Algae have come a long way in our post-fossil-fuels energy situation: Now the same green scum that covers water and other surfaces could soon be enlisted to make...
View ArticleModified Algae Produce Clean, Easy Hydrogen
Creating Hydrogen From Algae By isolating the photosynthesizing parts of a certain thermophilic blue-green algae and catalyzing it with light and platinum, researchers have produced clean, sustainable...
View ArticleU.S. Government Invests $78 Million in Algae Biofuels Research
Green Algae Future Hurrah for algae but ... not in my backyard NOAA Scientists have been trying their best to turn algae into the biofuel of the 21st century, and now the U.S. Department of Energy...
View ArticleUsing Green Algae as Drug Factory Could Cut Pharma Costs by 1,000 Times
Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Could Produce Cheaper Biologic Drugs Algae has helped create the atmosphere, played a role in populating the oceans and even produced biofuels so that we might pollute the...
View ArticleFor The First Time, Researchers Harvest Raw Electric Current Directly From...
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Algae has been floated again and again as a possible means of biofuel production, usually through chemical processes that extract sugars or other organic compounds that can...
View ArticleIn New System, Algae Cleans Water, Then Transforms into Organic Fertilizer
Nature's Green Cleaner Air-dried algae (shown above) from an algal turf scrubber captured most of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the manure. USDA/Edwin Remsburg Algal blooms that feed on nutrient-rich...
View Article60-Ship Flotilla Dispatched to Ward Off Massive Algae Bloom on Chinese Coast
Green Tide Grips China Coast eutrophication&hypoxiaMore than 60 ships are being dispatched to ward off a green tide approaching the city of Qingdao, the Guardian reports. Officials in the Chinese...
View ArticleBacteria Could Be Engineered to Produce Natural Bio-Sunscreen
Cyanobacteria Wikimedia Commons Scientists have figured out how blue-green algae protects itself from ultraviolet rays, in a breakthrough that could lead to a new breed of sunscreens and anti-wrinkle...
View ArticleA Long Exposure Captures Bioluminescence Below, a Swirling, Starry Night Above
Illumination Above and Below Phil HartThis image would be cool enough if it were some kind of artistic fabrication, but the fact that it's a real photograph is nothing short of amazing. Capturing more...
View ArticleAlgae Live Inside Developing Salamanders' Cells, Scientists Find
Salamanders and Algae Salamander embryos grow inside egg capsules that are covered with and usually infiltrated by a type of green algae. Roger Hangarter/Indiana University Algae live inside the cells...
View ArticleSaving the Seas: Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones
Too Much Growth Synthetic fertilizer draining from farmland has helped create at least 405 near-lifeless patches of ocean worldwide. Fertilizer and sewage generate the growth of algae [above, green],...
View ArticleGenetically Modified Algae Are Magnetic, For Ease of Manipulation
Magnetic Algae The wild algae on the left settles to the bottom of the test tube. The magnetic algae on the right sticks to the wall thanks to the magnet. Los Alamos National Laboratory via...
View ArticleOriginOil Model 4 Algae Appliance
Entry-Level Algae Harvester Courtesy Originoil OriginOil created this compact unit to lower the barriers to entry for algae harvesting. The Model 4 can process one gallon of algae-rich water per...
View ArticleScientists Engineer Algae To Produce New Targeted Cancer Therapy
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (green algae) Dartmouth Electron Microscope FacilityIf traditional cancer therapies like chemotherapy are the WMDs of medicine--powerful, indiscriminate killers--targeted...
View ArticleFYI: Can Humans Survive In A Completely Self-Sufficient Closed Environment?
Biohome NASA Not yet, though we've been trying to do so since at least the 1970s. Fabricating an environment that needs no power other than the sun and is a closed system (where waste gets broken down...
View ArticleNASA Flies Over Lake Erie To Scan For Dangerous Algae Blooms
John H. Glenn Research Center At Lewis Field NASA What started as a small research project at NASA has become an important tool in a campaign to combat the toxic algae blooms that recently left...
View ArticleThe Week In Numbers: Origami Microscopes, Laser Turrets, And A Bit More Than...
Mark Those Birds! Zooniverse Penguin Watch 50: number of cameras researchers are using to study penguin populations in the Antarctic. You can help researchers identify penguins in adorable...
View Article60-Ship Flotilla Dispatched to Ward Off Massive Algae Bloom on Chinese Coast
More than 60 ships are being dispatched to ward off a green tide approaching the city of Qingdao, the Guardian reports. Officials in the Chinese coastal city hope an armada…
View ArticleBacteria Could Be Engineered to Produce Natural Bio-Sunscreen
Scientists have figured out how blue-green algae protects itself from ultraviolet rays, in a breakthrough that could lead to a new breed of sunscreens and anti-wrinkle…
View ArticleA Long Exposure Captures Bioluminescence Below, a Swirling, Starry Night Above
This image would be cool enough if it were some kind of artistic fabrication, but the fact that it’s a real photograph is nothing short of amazing. Capturing more than one…
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