Daniel Blumstein’s office is filled with marmot souvenirs, ranging from a “marmot-Xing” sign, to marmot T-shirts and memes, to a casino advertisement featuring a marmot. Blumstein, a UCLA ecology and ...

The Pentagon’s research and development division, DARPA—the creative force behind the internet and GPS—retooled itself three years ago to create a new office dedicated to unraveling biology’s ...

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When bioengineer Jay Keasling of the University of California, Berkeley, asked Congress to create a federal initiative on synthetic biology last year, funding opportunities for grant-seekers in this ...

Rochester Institute of Technology Associate Professor Moumita Das is part of a team of researchers that was recently awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to design and ...

Greater use of biomass for power generation is often constrained by the high moisture content of these fuels. As water content increases, heating value drops, hampering the economics of the biomass ...