Those cold gray November skies should be a warning that winter is well and truly on its way. That means it’s time to whip old ...

In fact, the lion's share of crude oil is made up of microscopic organisms like marine algae and plankton ... Another 27% becomes diesel fuel, meaning that nearly three quarters of each barrel makes ...

But while diesel fuel can provide surprisingly efficient power, it also comes with at least one downside: the potential to gel. It's a sticky problem — literally — and it can cause some ...

Scientists develop electro-biodiesel from CO2 with 45x efficiency, paving the way for carbon-negative fuel production.

A large algae bloom was spotted around the Santa Monica Pier Tuesday, extending for miles down the coastline. Sky5 was above the “red tide” at 11 a.m. The bloom was seen “all the way down ...

Developmental and morphological diversity in brown algae. a, Phylogenetic position of F. serratus, F. distichus and Ectocarpus in a simplified eukaryotic tree of life. An arrow marks the ...

Independently evolved brown algae develop this way, too. Diethard Tautz is at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Plön, Germany, and at the Stellenbosch Institute for ...

The contents of the 'black balls' that washed up on Sydney, Australia beaches last month have been identified after weeks of ...

This is thanks largely due to diesel engines having fewer components compared to gas. For example, diesel engines don't rely on spark plugs to ignite fuel. Instead, they ignite diesel by ...