For years, harmful algae blooms have tainted various Long Island waters, but local residents got a harsh wakeup on a long-term problem when three dogs in North Carolina died hours after frolicking in ...

In 2009, ExxonMobil announced that it would pay Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics up to $300 million to develop algae-based fuels. How did the project go? Not too well, to judge from that latest press ...

This press release is available in German. Flowers need water and light to grow. Even children learn that plants use sunlight to gather energy from earth and water. Members of Professor Dr. Olaf Kruse ...

A slew of popular-science books have set out to convince readers that some overlooked, obscure or generally disdained category of thing is actually wildly important, whether it’s salt, garbage or ...