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Countries all across the globe are investing in renewable energy as climate change becomes a greater danger. Wind energy is one of the most rapidly expanding renewable energy sources

A new artificial enzyme has shown it can chew through lignin, the tough polymer that helps woody plants hold their shape. Lignin also stores tremendous potential for renewable energy and materials.

Researchers from Washington State University (WSU) and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have devised an artificial enzyme that digests lignin, which has stubbornly resisted previous attempts to develop it into an economically useful energy source. An open-access paper on their work is published in Nature Communications....

When the power grid goes down, there is a stepwise recovery process–a so-called “blackstart” that until now has relied on power from gas or hydro turbines spinning away within a power plant.

Scientists create quantum technology platform. The brilliant blue of the Hope Diamond is caused by small impurities in its crystal structure. Similar diamond impurities are also giving hope to scientists looking to create materials that can be used for quantum computing and quantum sensing.

Sheets of pure diamond with tiny imperfections could hold promise for being controllable materials platform for quantum technology.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $40 million to provide research opportunities to historically underrepresented groups in STEM and [...]

Manos Mavrikakis, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is part of a research team that has....

In work that could usher in more efficient, eco-friendly processes for producing important metals like lithium, iron, and cobalt, researchers from MIT and

MIT and SLAC researchers have mapped what is happening at the atomic level behind a particularly promising approach called metal electrolysis. The work could usher in more efficient, eco-friendly processes for the production of metals like lithium and iron.