AMES, Iowa – Yan Zhao gestured toward the trees outside his campus window on a rainy afternoon. The professor of chemistry at Iowa State University is developing new synthetic catalysts to break down ...

Some three billion years ago, when life on this planet was still in its infancy, hot springs, geysers and volcanic hydrothermal vents were burgeoning with single-cell organisms. Temperatures hovered ...

Scientists have created a new "super enzyme" that can break down plastic up to six times faster than their previous enzyme. Scientists have created a new "super enzyme" that can break down plastic up ...

Microbial organisms adapted to extreme and inhospitable environments carry proteins within their proteome that significantly accelerate the dissolution of CO₂ in water, while also withstanding very ...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Codexis Inc., a specialist in clean biocatalytic process technologies, have teamed to find ways of converting biomass to clean, renewable liquid transportation fuels through ...