Turning processing discards into high-value compounds for the food, medical, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical sectors.

Cities to swelter as planners face unenviable trade-off between tackling climate change and quality of life, new research has shown.

Advanced maternal age at the time of giving birth is known to decrease how long the offspring will live and their fecundity.

Although we’re still a long way from commercial airplanes powered by a combination of fossil fuel and batteries, a recent feasibility study at the University of Illinois explored fuel/battery configurations and the energy lifecycle to learn the tradeoffs needed to yield the greatest reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.

The shade of a single tree can provide welcome relief from the hot summer sun.

Professor Contributes to Research to Prevent Giraffe population ExtincIn an effort to prevent the extinction of the tallest terrestrial mammal, Derek Lee and Monica Bond embarked on a research project eight years ago to study the giraffe population.

New research from Washington University in St. Louis explains the cellular processes that allow a sun-loving microbe to “eat” electricity — transferring electrons to fix carbon dioxide to fuel its growth.

A University of Oklahoma-led project is showing how citizen science programs provide valuable data on rivers in southwestern United States.

Weeds often emerge at the same time as vulnerable crop seedlings and sneak between plants as crops grow.

It is widely believed that Maasai farmers kill lions after losing livestock – even if lions are not involved – but the study shows this is not the case.