The morning email contained a rather calculated solicitation: a "Russian scientist" and a University of Iowa student had cooked up a fungus that translated into inexpensive cellulosic ...

For the second year in a row the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs will be partnering with inmates at Westgate Correctional Facility to dye the sawdust used for the Bermuda Day Floats.

MEADVILLE -- Animal exhibitors would be wise to pack their own bedding material for the Crawford County Fair in 2009. The mounds of sawdust that fair officials have provided at no cost have been ...

As we start drilling in the Arctic, we’re going to spill oil in a place where it’s extra hard to clean up. This sawdust could help, but there’s one catch: how you get rid of the sawdust. All of this ...

Workers are using a milky white dye as they frantically try to trace the path of highly radioactive water gushing from a tsunami-damaged Japanese nuclear plant and leaking into the ocean. Over the ...

CASCO, Maine — As huge saws rip through logs at the Hancock Lumber sawmill, sawdust flies through the air and coats equipment, floors and rafters. Far from a nuisance, though, the sawdust is ...

In the quest for sustainable energy solutions capable of meeting the energy needs of modern society, energy storage systems play a hugely important role; indeed, “in the field of renewable energies we ...

This is science at its best: When I was growing up, the only practical use for sawdust was to soak up vomit, but thanks to scientists at a Belgian university who developed a new chemical process, that ...