“I’ve been constantly trying to understand how protein from food waste can be revalued and repurposed,” Raffaele Mezzenga, a trained physicist, said on a recent video call. He played quietly with a yo ...

Scientists have developed a sustainable fuel cell membrane made from chicken feathers. The team extracts the protein keratin from feathers and processes it into amyloid fibrils, creating a ...

In a potential breakthrough for green energy technology, scientists at ETH Zurich and Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) have developed a membrane for hydrogen fuel cells made from ...

A number of companies are developing lab-grown meat products; cultured nuggets can be grown from cells collected from a feather. What's False While nuggets can be grown from cells collected from a ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Hydrogen fuel cells are vying for a top spot among humanity’s green energy solutions, but chemicals found in fuel cells— as well as the environmental cost of producing hydrogen—are a major ...

The food industry generates enormous amounts of waste and by- products, including from poultry production. Each year, some 40 million tonnes of chicken feathers are incinerated. This not only releases ...

Chicken feathers may help cars use hydrogen fuel in the future. The feathers would not be the fuel, but they could help store it, new research reveals. Hydrogen, the most common element in the ...