1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (80+ words) A team of researchers at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad has shown that an ordinary kitchen staple, corn starch, can be transformed into a surprisingly capable solid electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries when it is combined with the right additives. In work…...

3+ hour, 55+ min ago   (704+ words) Every year, billions of tires reach the end of their service life, and engineers have long sought ways to turn this rubbery mountain of waste into something useful....

7+ hour, 39+ min ago   (73+ words) A humble byproduct of bioethanol fermentation, long relegated to low-value disposal, could soon find itself blended into the world’s fuel tanks. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have shown that fusel oil, the mixture of higher alcohols that distillers skim…...

11+ hour, 55+ min ago   (81+ words) Scientists in India have engineered a biodegradable hydrogel bead that carries a drought-tolerant bacterial consortium straight into the root zone of cowpea plants, and the results are striking. In pot trials described in the journal Discover Plants, the formulation nearly…...

12+ hour, 58+ min ago   (639+ words) A single silk worm cocoon, normally destined for the waste stream, has become the unlikely foundation of a new weapon against one of the world’s most stubborn water pollution problems....

15+ hour, 35+ min ago   (762+ words) Researchers in Cameroon have shown that a deceptively simple change in a well-known chemistry recipe—how much metakaolin powder is stirred into a fixed volume of sodium hydroxide solution—can dramatically reshape the internal architecture of the silica gel that…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (55+ words) Aquaculture has become one of the fastest growing food production sectors on the planet, and with that growth comes an uncomfortable byproduct: an unrelenting stream of organic waste. By 2022, global aquaculture production had surpassed 223.2 million metric tons, and every ton…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (95+ words) SusWater developed an integrated approach to identify and remove pollutants from aquatic sources in a low-cost, sustainable way, at the same time improving water quality for aquaculture. This website may no longer be available or may not contain the original…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (11+ words) nbcdfw.com Disposable China from Pavilion Paper...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (724+ words) Juan Herrera and Noah McNally use nets to harvest and weigh tilapia at the Research Greenhouse Complex on Sept. 9, 2026. (Sam Cohen/The Diamondback) After nine months raising tilapia at the University of Maryland’s aquaponics facility, Emily Shepherd is ready to…...