Athens, Ga. (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Most genetic manipulation efforts have been trained on cash crops and flowers, but trees are big business too, and designing them to work better for what the market demands is important work.
Stavanger, Norway (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Norwegian energy company Statoil said Thursday its productivity for full-year 2014 was strong, though financial results are highly impacted by low oil prices.
Austin TX (SPX) Mar 19, 2015 - One of life's strongest bonds has been discovered by a science team researching biofuels with the help of supercomputers. Their find could boost efforts to develop catalysts for biofuel production f
Zug, Switzerland (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Rig builder Transocean said in its latest fleet status update report that it plans to dismantle four of its offshore drilling rigs.
Reading, England (UPI) Mar 18, 2015 - BG Group said Wednesday it started production from the Knarr field in the North Sea, a prospect with an estimated 80 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Mar 18, 2015 - In response to a slowdown in the industry, Canadian energy company Nexen, a Chinese subsidiary, announced plans to eliminate more than 300 employees.
Houston (UPI) Mar 18, 2015 - U.S. energy company ConocoPhillips said it was cutting capital spending by more than 25 percent in order to stay competitive in the low oil price cycle.
Toyohashi, Japan (SPX) Mar 18, 2015 - Mixed Ti-Nb oxide Ti2Nb10O29 (TNO) is one of the negative electrode materials for large scale Li-ion battery with high safety because the potential (= 1.6 V vs. Li/Li+) for Li storage of TNO should
Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 18, 2015 - The honeycomb structure of pristine graphene is beautiful, but Northwestern University scientists, together with collaborators from five other institutions, have discovered that if the graphene natu
London (UPI) Mar 18, 2015 - Production from oil operations in Kurdish Iraq is expected to increase following a payment from the regional government, Gulf Keystone Petroleum said.
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Mar 18, 2015 - Drexel researchers, along with colleagues at Aix-Marseille University in France, have discovered a high performance cathode material with great promise for use in next generation lithium-sulfur batt
Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) Mar 18, 2015 - The lithium ion battery currently is the most widespread battery technology. It is indispensable for devices, such as laptops, mobile phones or cameras. Current research activities are aimed at reac
London, UK (SPX) Mar 18, 2015 - Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought pro
Ontario, Quebec (UPI) Mar 18, 2015 - Federal regulators in North America are under pressure from industry bodies and environmental advocates worried about the safe transport of oil by rail.
Washington (UPI) Mar 18, 2015 - The U.S. government will roll out new standards in the coming months to cut the amount of shale natural gas wasted through flaring, the interior secretary said.
New York (UPI) Mar 18, 2015 - Concerns about a slow pace of economic recovery and a build in U.S. oil inventories pushed West Texas Intermediate prices to new lows Wednesday.
