Newswise — DENVER, Aug. 29, 2011 — Panda poop contains bacteria with potent effects in breaking down plant material in the way needed to tap biomass as a major new source of “biofuels” produced not ...

Pandas are utterly adorable, and pretty much everybody loves them. Still, odds are greenheads will love them even more once they learn that microbes in their poop can help make biofuels both cheaper ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of fungus after isolating it from the faeces of a giant panda. Named ‘Mucor melanoleucus,’ it belongs to a group of fungi commonly found in soil ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 10, 2013 — Unlikely as it may sound, giant pandas Ya Ya and Le Le in the Memphis Zoo are making contributions toward shifting production of biofuels away from corn and other food ...

You might be surprised at how much scientists can learn from analyzing feces. For instance, scientists unexpectedly discovered a well-preserved feather from a now-extinct waterfowl species when they ...

The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan province will provide the droppings and leftover food - mainly bamboo - of its pandas to a papermaking company to make toilet ...

An Yanshi, wearing a panda costume Saturday in Ya’an, China, unloads droppings used as fertilizer at his tea farm. (Reuters ) China’s national treasure, the giant panda, will become more precious if ...

The Annals of Improbable Research again awards its Ig Nobels to those scientific ideas that "cannot or should not be repeated." As always, Ars goes the extra mile and hunts down the papers and patents ...

OPISBiofuels: #USDA Sec. Tom Vilsack, Navy Sec. Ray Mabus holding conference call to “announce new developments” in advanced #biofuels partnership. fredrick_cowan: Ask POET is an online show from POET ...