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Creeping crinoids! Sea lilies crawl to escape predators, new video shows

...ebpage for pictures and videos! With their long stalks and feathery arms, marine animals known as sea lil...erate the ends of their stalks. Interestingly, the stalks don't break off just anywhere, but at particular nodes, just below clusters of flexible, finger-like...

U. of Colorado researcher identifies tracks of swimming dinosaur in Wyoming

...ebpage for pictures and videos! With their long stalks and feathery arms, marine animals known as sea lil...erate the ends of their stalks. Interestingly, the stalks don't break off just anywhere, but at particular nodes, just below clusters of flexible, finger-like...

Corn waste potentially more than ethanol

...feed or corn on the cob, farmers usually leave the stalks and stems in the field, but now, a team of Penn St...s can also directly generate hydrogen gas. Corn stalks and leaves, amassing 250 million tons a year, make up a third of the total solid waste produced in t...

With cellulosic ethanol, there is no food vs. fuel debate according to MSU scientist

...Cellulosic ethanol is made from the stems, leaves, stalks and trunks of plants, none of which is used for human food production. Having studied ethanol for more than 30 years, Dale said that as the country moves toward large-scale cellulosic ethanol production, the yield of so-called energy crops ?grasses a...

Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck

...eapest and most abundant plant material, from corn stalks left after harvest to wood chips from papermills and fast-growing weeds. "Our simulations have given us a better understanding of the interactions between the enzyme complex and cellulose at the molecular level -- the computer model showed us how...

ConocoPhillips establishes $22.5M biofuels research program at Iowa State

...pected to be made from fibrous biomass such as the stalks and leaves from corn plants and switchgrass. "I'm pleased Iowa State University and ConocoPhillips will partner to research and develop new technologies for producing biofuels," said Iowa Gov. Chet Culver. "These kind of public-private partnership...

Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production

...ving ethanol from plant materials such as the corn stalks and wood chips is challenging because the plants?cellulose is a very tough substance to break down, making for an inefficient process. Wu’s technique may prove much more effective than traditional methods. Instead of using separate steps to break d...

Fuel from fiber -- Pretreatment can put corn stalks, trees in your car's tank

...s science, making fuels from poplar trees and corn stalks is becoming more efficient and cost-effective. ...ing ethanol from plant biomass ?the stems, leaves, stalks and trunks of plants and trees usually discarded as waste after a crop is harvested. He's developed ...

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