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Where is what research performed? This map shows papers, patents, and grants related to biomass and biofuel research and technology. Only work in the US is shown. Records are aggregated at the state (high) and city (low) level.

Carnivorous clocks and mouse-eating coffee tables? A team of designers have come up with concepts for furniture that double as pest-control devices. They use some innovative fuel cell technology to turn animals into energy.

To make renewable biofuels, instead of manufacturing them from the sugars in food crops, researchers want to employ organisms that can make use of the hundreds of millions of tons of cellulose in sawdust, weeds and other plant scrap that would otherwise go to waste.

At this summer’s Airbus “Fly Your Ideas” competition, an international call for sustainability innovation in the airline industry, one team garnered a significant amount of head-turning by looking at HOW planes fly.