Over the years I have worked with a variety of power plant engineers. In doing so, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing 1. The highly respected, seasoned old engineer who knows the plant like the “back of ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University engineers and plant scientists are joining forces to design better crops that tolerate climate change, produce bigger yields and feed more people. The collaborative ...

Are you looking to make a difference in your career? We’re working on smarter grids, cleaner energy and tools to help people manage energy more efficiently. The Plant Engineer will play a vital role ...

There is great incentive to genetically engineer crops that possess desirable traits like greater biomass production and resistance to pathogens while requiring less resources, including space and ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agrobacterium in the wild causes damaging tumors in flowering plants ...

An artist's view of nanotubes entering plant cells. Courtesy: M Landry, UC Berkeley Carbon nanotubes can be used as tools to more easily deliver genes into plant cell nuclei and chloroplasts, say two ...

After several years of experimentation, scientists have engineered thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, to behave like a succulent, improving water-use efficiency, salinity tolerance and reducing the ...

Lynn Martin (left) and Travis Fettes (right) are plant operators in WMU’s Paper Pilot Plant. Did you know there’s a full pilot-sized paper plant housed at Western Michigan University’s College of ...

A Nuclear Nightmare’ is a documentary delving deep into the March 2011 catastrophe that nearly wiped out Japan. The nation was struck by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, which unleashed a tsunami that not ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...