Biofuel scientists used an oddball molecule made by bacteria to develop a new class of sustainable biofuels powerful enough to launch rockets. The candidate molecules have greater projected…
Since then Plevin’s position has changed completely. “My conclusion at the end of all this is it’s misguided,” he says. The problem, Plevin argues, is that it’s impossible to accurately…
Flying is dirty, at least in terms of global warming. A round-trip flight from New York to LA generates up to 2.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide, depending on the airline. That’s about the…
It’s been a longstanding enigma in biology: How do cells know how big they are? The answer, it turns out, was hidden inside Robert Sablowski’s computer files, collecting virtual dust since…