The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base has come up with a dung-for-profit scheme that turns droppings from the endangered species into odor-free souvenirs.Nothing says “I love you” like a photo frame ...

Biofuels might be a way to make energy out of renewable resources and cut dependence on fossil fuels, but currently, producing them from corn and other edible plants is largely impractical. Now, a ...

BEIJING – There’s a new Chinese saying: When life hands you panda poop, make paper. Researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are looking for paper mills to process their surplus of fiber ...

BEIJING – Nothing says “I love you” like a photo frame made from panda poop. The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base has come up with a dung-for-profit scheme that turns droppings from the endangered ...

BEIJING (AP) — There's a new Chinese saying: When life hands you panda poop, make paper. Researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are looking for paper mills to process their surplus of ...

Uhm, what is it with people mixing feces and brewed beverages? For years now we've all be chuckling about the fact that most expensive coffee in the world is brewed with beans that have been eaten and ...

Even though the first automobiles were designed to function on biofuels rather than fossil fuels, drilling commercial oil wells became popular in the mid-1800s and biofuel took a backseat. Renewed ...

Columnists, including me, feel a responsibility to keep you, the reader, updated on discoveries or phenomenon that might directly affect you. The latest gem that piqued my interest was the ...

Dung yet? Actually, no. We decided to ask the Internet what else people are trying to make out of poo, which is how we discovered a press release from Michigan State University about how researchers ...

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 ...

Giant pandas almost exclusively eat bamboo, and they've been doing that for about 2 million years. So it's quite curious that their gut bacteria isn't really equipped to process all that plant matter.

WASHINGTON — Those who bandy about four-letter words could emphasize a product’s high value with a phrase that begins with “That’s the —-.” In the case of a certain expensive Chinese tea, this ...