Just three years ago, Colorado-based inventor Jim Sears shuttered himself in his garage and began tinkering with a design to mass-produce biofuel. His reactor (plastic bags) and his feedstock (algae) ...

From the air you breathe to the seafood you eat, marine algae have some involvement—they consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen through photosynthesis and feed fish and shellfish. One day, marine ...

photo: Algohelix members Ibrahim and Pooja Natarajan with automated algae growth system A team of four computer science graduate students are working with the Yogh Group, an energy technology company, ...