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Commercial trucks in the U.S. burned approximately 22 billion gallons of diesel fuel in 2010. Replacing diesel with a clean, green and renewable biofuel could substantially reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.
Office of Science researchers borrowed from a fir tree to create a fuel that could leave diesel in the dust.
The Fabric of the Cosmos
New PBS series explores The Fabric of the Cosmos.
Colorized TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy) micrograph of a cell of Geobacter sulfurreducens (orange) with its pili (yellow) stretching out like arms and immobilizing the uranium (black precipitate).
Office of Science-funded researcher shows how bacteria can clean up radioactive waste.