5+ hour, 13+ min ago  (710+ words) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. " Converting aquaculture sludge with a natural microbial process into a viable renewable biofuel presents a mind-numbing chess match of biochemical variables. This process " anaerobic digestion " involves microbes operating in a no-oxygen environment. "Although the anaerobic digestion technology…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (517+ words) Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral researcher. Now at Purdue University, he aims to combine those fields in a project that will use artificial intelligence to plan the synthesis…...