2+ hour, 42+ min ago   (524+ words) Every year, the world brews billions of cups of coffee, and almost all of the spent grounds end up in landfills, where they slowly decompose and release methane....

4+ hour, 55+ min ago   (55+ words) Every year, farms and food-processing plants generate staggering volumes of straw, husks, stalks, manure, and processing residues, much of which rots away or is burned. These materials are rich in energy, but for the microbes that convert organic matter into…...

6+ hour, 35+ min ago   (55+ words) Researchers in India have found a way to transform ordinary marble dust, a low-value by-product of the stone-cutting industry, into a powerful additive that makes one of the world’s most widely used aluminium alloys significantly stronger and more resistant to…...

11+ hour, 25+ min ago   (654+ words) Every year, the potato processing industry in the United States generates enormous quantities of peel waste, a wet, starchy, and fibrous byproduct that most facilities pay to dispose of. A new study published in Waste and Biomass Valorization suggests that…...

14+ hour, 9+ min ago   (592+ words) Para-aramid polymers such as poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide), better known by trade names like Kevlar, have long been celebrated for their extraordinary combination of strength, thermal stability and chemical resistance. A fully aromatic backbone locked together by dense intermolecular hydrogen bonding…...