BBC NewsMalaysia oil tanker 'not hijacked' despite earlier reportsBBC NewsA Malaysian oil tanker has not been hijacked as earlier reported, but taken to Indonesia by its own crew, officials in both countries say. The MT Vier Harmoni, carrying 900,0 …

Financial TimesNo end to the squeeze in sustainable palm oil supplyFinancial TimesBuyers of sustainable palm oil are still struggling with a squeeze in supplies despite the return to the market of IOI Corporation, a leading Malaysian palm oil producer and …

MarketWatchOil prices fall as hopes for freeze agreement fadeMarketWatchCrude oil prices fell in early Asia trade Wednesday, as optimism that major producers would agree to a production freeze agreement ebbed after Iran signalled it has little interest in …

SeekerWater Fern Soaks Up Oil Like Green SpongeSeekerThis video shows how fast Salvinia molesta soaks up oil, while repelling water. Three years ago, IMT developed a synthetic version of these hairy surfaces called "nanofur," which is produced by …

SeekerWater Fern Soaks Up Oil Like Green Sponge - SeekerSeekerA floating, aquatic weed called Salvinia has hairy leaves that can actually soak up oil spills.and more » Read more http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNG_giedP8 …

MarketWatchOil futures sink, set for 2nd weekly July lossMarketWatch“As inventories remain well above year-ago levels for crude and gasoline, and as demand fails to be as strong as [some] hope, there is the fear that the ongoing oil and gasoline glut is tu …

A 'smart dress' for oil-degrading bacteriaEurekAlert (press release)The development of biofilms on hydrophobic surface is a very important feature of A. borkumensis cells because this is how these cells attach to the oil droplets in natural environ …

ENGINEERING.comIBM Boosts Its Cloud Offerings with New NVIDIA GPUsENGINEERING.comFor engineering firms, having the ability to spin up supercomputing performance on demand could signal a big change in how far the state of the art can be pushed even by the s …

Penn State NewsEngineering's Wong recognized for work in bioinspired synthetic materialsPenn State NewsTak-Sing Wong, Wormely Family Early Career Professor in Engineering and assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, is trying to und …

EurekAlert (press release)Clay nanotube-biopolymer composite scaffolds for tissue engineering Kazan Federal UniversityEurekAlert (press release)Scientists of Bionanotechnology Lab, Kazan Federal University, combined three biopolymers, chitosan and agarose …