Designed to enhance the work efficiency and relationship between the employees at workplace, French designer Paul Coudamy has come up with a meeting pod that provides privacy or enclosure in an open space for better understanding. Called...

Eco Factor: Non-metallic battery made from cellulose. While industrial designers are envisioning a world where electronics won’t be hard but would be flexible enough to be integrated into clothing or product packaging, researchers are trying...

“Gliocladium Roseum converts cellulose to Myco-Diesel” What if one day we lose all our fossil fuel reserves? No, this is not something from a futuristic tale, it can actually happen if we researchers don’t figure out a way to...

Eco Factor: Fungus can answer fuel crisis with a faster way to produce diesel from plants. Gliocladium Roseum, or simply “Magic Fungus” for researchers finding new ways to refill our fossil fuel reserves, is an organism which resides...

Had nature’s waste not been automatically recycled, it’d have created havoc for the environment. In fact, sustaining the environment would have been simply impossible. Waste becomes a problem when it is created by mankind, that too,...

A group of students from MIT have come up with a new idea to produce electricity from grass. Although a prototype, is appreciated to be very new and innovative idea. The team won the first prize in MIT and Dow Materials Engineering...

Pix: Using proprietary DNA extraction and cloning technologies, scientists have isolated the cellulose-degrading enzymes found in termites and created industrial ethanol production enablers.(Courtesy: University of Toronto) With the...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology researchers have discovered the solution to producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass, which was tough because of the nature of the cellulosic structure - toughness. It is also resistant...