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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Bioethics, Biofuels, Biology, Diseases, Energy, Featured Articles, Genomics, Health and Medicine, New Species, SciClips on 09 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Synthetic Biology Takes on a Life of Its Own

A Yeast Cell with Synthetic Genes, courtesy of Dr. Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School Life is often stranger than fiction. But the direction that biology is heading, synthetic life could be stranger than science fiction. The emerging field of synthetic biology is moving closer and closer to creating...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biofuels, Biology, Dinosaurs, Diseases, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Genomics, Geoengineering, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Nanotechnology, SciClips, Space, Wave Power on 11 17th, 2008 | No Comments

One Celled Solutions

Model of a phage attacking a microbe, courtesy of Ohio State University Science is facing some big questions, like how will we capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide or how will we overcome antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections? But, a one-celled organism that lives in the sea may have the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Biology, Energy, Marine Science, SciClips on 09 2nd, 2008 | No Comments

Blooming Algae For Biofuel

Dr. Rose Ann Cattolico, Photo by Mary Levin, University of Washington Dr. Rose Ann Cattolico’s 30-year-old idea is finally blossoming. As gas prices soar and fears over foreign oil security mount, many scientists and entrepreneurs are looking for new sources of energy. Algae is one alternative...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biofuels, Energy, Engineering, Environment, SciClips on 06 16th, 2008 | No Comments

Hogging Biofuels

Pig Manure Biofuel Producers Well, just as gas prices become surreal and corn-based ethanol is threatening grocery bills, there is a new energy looming on the horizon. This one stinks and won’t be filling any gas tanks anytime soon. Pig manure biofuel could be a $1 billion business (down the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biofuels, Energy, Engineering, Physics and Chemistry on 04 10th, 2008 | No Comments

Sugar-Powered Cars

Percival Zhang, courtesy of Virginia Tech Someday fossil fuels will no longer fill our gas tanks. But what will replace gas as the fuel of the future? Some are betting that we will become a hydrogen economy. But there are many barriers blocking the way. A Virginia Tech chemist thinks he’s overcome...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Environment, Ethanol, Genomics, Marine Science, New Species, SciClips on 03 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment

Talking Trash About Biofuel

Steven Hutcheson, professor of cell biology and molecular genetics and president and CEO of Zymetis Inc. (right), and Ben Woodard, (left), director of the UMd Mtech Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility. A super synthesizing microbe is turning trash into gold. Or at least sugar which can be refined into biofuel....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Environment, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, SciClips on 03 24th, 2008 | No Comments

Black Carbon is New #2 Global Warmer

Scientists have been underestimating the power of black soot and other particulate pollution to warm the world. New science shows that black carbon is the second greatest contributor to global warming. Carbon dioxide is still number one. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_9378', {src: 'http://www.realscience.us/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf',...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Biology, Energy, Geology, Podcast, SciClips on 06 19th, 2007 | No Comments

Popular Targets

Some trees are better for scientific study than others. One of the most popular is the poplar—a fast-growing, commonly modified species. But there is a dark side to being poplar. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_9379', {src: 'http://www.realscience.us/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf',...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Climate, Energy, Environment, Podcast, SciClips on 05 3rd, 2007 | No Comments

Cloudy Future

Jet engines roar above Earth all day long, creating long, white trails of water vapor. Scientists have determined that these contrails are creating cirrus clouds but the effect on climate change still remains a bit cloudy. Cloudy Future pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_9380', {src: 'http://www.realscience.us/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf',...