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Energy & environment

Biofuel production boost from catalyst made from palladium and bacteria

View from the Academy: silos should not hold back biofuel development

Eighteenth century pump and solar power technology provide irrigation solution

Semiconductor nanoparticles give bacteria a boost

Green automotive future lacks vital components

New dawn for thorium reactor research

New catalyst design promises to cut NOx emissions

Air Products is developing dispensing technologies for hydrogen as an automotive fuel

Interview: Tim Hulbert, UK and Ireland general manager, Air Products

Tectonic activity may have scuppered UK fracking potential

South Australia to build 150MW solar thermal plant

Biocompatible electrolyte could enable safer implantable batteries

Planning permission granted for East Anglia offshore windfarm