Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson tells CNN's Soledad O'Brien what he believes will drive tomorrow's economy.
Donald Stedman has never been a fan of ethanol. Stedman, a chemistry professor at the University of Denver, said there are several problems with the alcohol fuel, one being that it messed up the fuel pump in a car he uses.
Water testing by a private environmental engineering firm has discovered toxic chemicals in wells in a township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
Nigerian-born entrepreneur Kase Lawal is the epitome of the American dream. Arriving to the US a young, idealistic student, Lawal has carved a name for himself in one of the most competitive industries in the world: Oil.
Nigerian oil businessman Kase Lawal on starting his own business and its rise to becoming a multi-billion dollar empire.
A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals.
Susie Levitt's and Katie Shea's feet had had enough. Walking around Manhattan sidewalks between classes in their high heels was getting unbearable.
Fossil fuels that keep our planet running -- oil, natural gas and coal -- were created from the decomposition of plants, plankton and other organic material over millions of years.
Over the decades, I've interviewed dozens of automotive engineers; engine engineers, transmission engineers, chemical engineers, tire engineers, etc. But never have I interviewed an engineer quite like Ford's Cristina Rodriguez.
Twenty four hours before the greatest scientific experiment of our time gets underway at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, political and scientific dignitaries assembled at a site a few hundred miles north east of the French/Swiss border at a site in Germany to inaugurate another groundbreaking engineering test.
His phone number was published in a German phone directory -- Rafid Alwan, whose claims that Saddam Hussein was producing biological agents helped launch the Iraq war.
CNN's Frederik Pleitgen interviews 'Curveball' the man at the center of the 'biggest intelligence failure in history.'
Marius Kloppers was born in South Africa on August 26, 1962.
The approach of flu season sends many people scurrying for vaccinations and vitamins. But what if you could avoid the flu and other viruses simply by getting dressed? That's the idea behind two garments that are part of the "Glitterati" clothing line designed by Olivia Ong, a senior design major at Cornell University.
While it may not stop gas prices in their climb to $4 a gallon, long-term help could be on the way from Georgia's 24 million acres of majestic pine-filled forest lands.
CNNMoney: Better than ethanolupdated: Mon Apr 02 2007 11:56:00
All of a sudden, everybody hates ethanol.
Christopher d'Arnaud-Taylor was on a roll. It was early 2006, and Xethanol, the New York City firm he had founded, said it was closing in on the Holy Grail of alternative energy. Taylor was telling...
Dear Annie: I'm a sophomore in college, trying to decide on a major, and I'm confused because I have several different interests. I like chemistry and math, and I'm good at them, but I also enjoy learning languages. I need to be practical about my choice because I'll have pretty heavy student loans to pay off. Can you tell me which kinds of college degrees will be the most likely to lead to a good job in three or four years? -Up in the Air
Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer has an unusual resume: tap dancer, baton twirler, Miss Georgia 1976, M.D., and former president of the American College of Physicians.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Recent surveys show that a lot of people are itching to find new jobs and human resource managers are expecting a lot of movement -- both signs that employers may need to sweeten the pot.
You probably don't know it, but the answer to America's gasoline addiction could be under the hood of your car. More than five million Tauruses, Explorers, Stratuses, Suburbans, and other vehicles are already equipped with engines that can run on an energy source that costs less than gasoline, produces almost none of the emissions that cause global warming, and comes from the Midwest, not the Middle East.
New research published by American scientists may have brought the prospect of filling up your tank with green gas a little bit closer.
"I'VE GOT CHEMICALS IN MY BLOOD," SAYS FRANK MITSCH. No, he's not talking about illicit substances. As an analyst with institutional research firm Fulcrum Global Partners, Mitsch helps his clients ...
The Opportunity Mars rover has turned into a junkyard dog, prowling ever closer to a hunk of space litter at Meridiani Planum -- a discarded heat shield.
A South Korean scientist says he has come up with an inexpensive way to produce nanoparticles on a large scale without harming the environment.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The job market may not be booming. But for many in the college class of 2004, it won't be quite as dismal as it was for last year's grads.
BP's Texas City petrochemical plant Betting $75 million on "Project Future" at a sprawling Gulf of Mexico facility triggers a 55% increase in productivity.
The Next Big Thing? Please. The concept is so hackneyed that I couldn't help but groan a little when tech fund manager Steve Salopek embraced it at a press briefing I attended in April. I was struc...
In recent years, one of the most powerful forces outside of nature--the profit motive--has impelled companies to clean up their manufacturing processes and products. It pays to be green. To be sure...
THERE ARE ALL SORTS of ways to grade a chief executive. Look at his return on equity. Calculate his return on investment. Take quarterly note of his earnings growth. Rank him against his peers. Ran...
THERE's a musical management message in Frank Sinatra's bouncy 1959 1959 hit "High Hopes," wherein an industrious ant confounds the skeptics by moving an entire rubber tree plant. That could serve ...
Bill Clinton will take office this month because Americans decided that a change of leadership would improve the country's fortunes. Similarly, the directors of a handful of big U.S. companies have...
REMEMBER that pudgy kid in the eighth grade, the one who liked to concoct bombs in his mom's kitchen? Now he's one of America's premier software designers. Or that other brat, the one who got in tr...
Here's a happy lesson in the law of supply and demand for new grads in chemical engineering: U.S. colleges awarded only 3,612 such degrees in 1991, vs. 7,685 in 1984 when the decline began. Result:...
ONE OF THE SOURCES of Japan's strength is that old industries never die. They don't even fade away. The Japanese textile, shipbuilding, petrochemical, and steel industries -- once presumed doomed -...
MEAD CORP., like many other U.S. companies, was sitting tight. It had not built a new paperboard plant since 1975. But a little over a year ago top executives met to reconsider. Their mills were op...
ARMAND HAMMER, the capitalist chum of Lenin and friend of U.S. Presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt, the globe-girdling amateur diplomat and millionaire art collector, the nonpracticing physician...
During World War II, George Keller was an Air Force meteorologist assigned to Labrador. Predicting weather on the North Atlantic was a tricky job under any circumstances, but the pressure wasn't ju...
RIGHT OR WRONG, John K. McKinley makes the decisions at Texaco Inc. No touchy-feely management by consensus for this hardheaded chief executive, and no buck-passing either. Now 65 and scheduled for...
LIVING ORGANISMS and modern industrial society have an intriguing thing in common: both depend to a large extent on catalysts -- small amounts of substances that speed up chemical reactions but com...
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