Setting aside the ambitious Green New Deal and its goal of achieving 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, Congressional Democrats are sectioning off porti

Electricity Systems, Nuclear, Energy & Society, Policy & Regulation

Energy experts, climate change organizers, and lawmakers are at odds about whether to expand or retract our dependence on nuclear power. We discuss the current technology behind managing and storing nuclear waste and explore what would be required to advance this zero carbon energy creator.

Energy & Society, Environmental Studies, Policy & Regulation

A host of regulatory changes and networks combine to enable lab-evolved yeast strains to ferment xylose under low-oxygen conditions.

Transportation & Fuels, Conversion

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) honored Materials Science and Engineering Professor Xudong Wang as one of the nation’s top-two percent of medical and biological engineers by electing him a fellow.

Electricity Systems, Materials

We all know that turning off lights and buying energy-efficient appliances affects our financial bottom line.

Energy & Society, Economics, Environmental Studies, Policy & Regulation

Microbial production of fuels and other useful chemicals offers renewable alternatives to products that are currently derived from fossil fuels.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts