Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered how some bacteria generate electricity, a finding that could lead to future sources of energy, more efficient landfills and rust-resistant ...

Perseverance, NASA’s 2020 Mars rover, is powered by something very desirable here on Earth: a thermoelectric device that converts heat to useful electricity. On Mars, the heat source is the ...

Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won’t have a place in California trash cans under the nation’s largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that’s set to take effect in ...

AntMind, a climate-tech startup, aims to transform forestry byproducts into renewable energy while simultaneously ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing ways to convert waste into fuels and other products, using processes that are energy efficient and powered by renewable sources. More ...

Thanks to science, the materials currently causing pollution can be converted to create a more sustainable and cleaner future ...

Marylanders could find their energy coming from an unusual source: chicken waste. "We have a site. We have a plan" to build a plant to convert chicken waste into power, Attorney General Doug Gansler ...

A new thermogalvanic device uses nanoparticles to control ion flow, allowing it to convert waste heat to electricity and store the energy without external batteries. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Heat is ...

Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect in ...

A new report by the United Nations has called for the scaling up of investments in technologies that convert food waste into fuel to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.Fossil fuels—coal, oil and gas—are ...

Royal Caribbean’s newest ships will introduce what’s being described as the “next generation” of waste management at sea thanks to systems designed to turn waste directly into energy onboard. Slated ...

Editor’s note: The Lab Report is a weekly series in The Badger Herald’s print edition where we take a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. University ...