A dangerous toxin has been witnessed—for the first time—releasing into the air from pond scum, research published in the peer-reviewed journal Lake and Reservoir Management today shows. You've ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Remember the optimist’s creed, “If life gives you lemons, make them into lemonade”? Well, ConocoPhillips and the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels ...

(CNN)-- Pond scum. The thought typically evokes images that leave most people cringing, but it may one day occupy an important role in the nation's energy supply. The current fuel crunch, driven ...

There's more to pond scum than meets the eye. Just ask Nobel Prize-winning scientist Elizabeth Blackburn, now the President of the Salk Institute, who earned her Laureate status, in part, for insights ...

What looks like green pond scum floating on water surfaces is quietly becoming the hottest ingredient in high-end restaurants and health food circles. Water lentils, better known as duckweed, are ...

It's going to need a better name, because "pond scum" just doesn't have a ring to it. Algae fuel, after decades in the wilderness without much funding or technical breakthroughs, is finally reaching ...

Utah State University researchers are using an innovative approach that takes oil from algae and converts it to biodiesel fuel. USU is currently conducting research on algae and plans to produce an ...

Scientists have designed a way to power small devices out of pond scum -- which they believe could be a more "practical" solution than lithium ion batteries. Paolo Bombelli/University of Cam This ...

Seven years ago, a toxic form of algae bloomed in Milford Lake near Junction City. Kansas had never really seen a bloom quite like it before. It lasted for almost three months and has returned every ...

Under the microscope a drop of pond scum can give hours of delightful study. What feels between the fingers like slime is, microscopically, an open lake crowded with queer vegetable and animal life.

(CNN)-- Pond scum. The thought typically evokes images that leave most people cringing, but it may one day occupy an important role in the nation's energy supply. The current fuel crunch, driven ...