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Marine biologists get crabby over offshore wind farms
More renewables is all good, right? Not quite. Normally, wind farms get a bad rap for deaths of birds and bats.…
Enzyme tweaking leads to biodegradable plastics
MIT chemists have determined the structure of a bacterial enzyme that can produce biodegradable plastics, an…
Fuel efficiency standards to reduce carbon emissions
A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere could provide some valuable guidance on the most effective…
Waste not, want not: Scrap metal energy generation
Put some metal scraps from the junkyard in a glass jar with a common household chemical; and, voilà, you have a…
Scientists’ research goes down the toilet
Wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to…
Iceland ‘geopark’ yields magma power potential
For visitors to Iceland, Reykjanes Peninsula is a place known for its diverse landscape. For scientists working on…
Perovskite solar cell design performs at lower cost
A new type of solar cell that replaces silicon with a crystal called perovskite has been created by researchers.…
Dancing on the ceiling, electricity generation on the floor…
Flooring can be made from any number of sustainable materials, making it, generally, an eco-friendly feature in…
17% of carbon emissions to be neutralized through solar energy
MIT, Boston Medical Center, and Post Office Square Redevelopment Corporation have formed an alliance to buy…
New world record for nuclear fusion reactor
On Friday, September 30th, at 9:25 p.m. EDT, scientists and engineers at MIT’s Plasma Science and…