Inexpensive and energy-efficient lithium-ion batteries from fossilised remains of single-celled algae called diatoms can soon power electric vehicles, a team of researcher has found.

A four-member MC team, which had gone to Chennai to study the technicalities and feasibility of a plastic-to-fuel plant, returned today and has proposed to set up such an environment-friendly plant

Can India kick its habit of depending on costly import of petroleum products by getting hooked onto a new form of industrial alcohol called methanol?

TRICHY: Biofuel made from microalgae can prove to be an alternative to conventional fossil fuels, said experts participating in the international conference, titled 'Microalgal and Cyanobacterial b

While the bacteria E. coli is often considered a bad bug, researchers commonly use laboratory-adapted E. coli that lacks the features that can make humans sick, but can grow just as fast.

Villagers in Thailand are using an unlikely alternative source of energy: cow poop.

A gasoline station attendant pumps diesel into a car at a filling station on March 23, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.