Oil giant ExxonMobil’s decision to abandon its 14-year, multimillion-dollar support for research into making fuel from algae ended years of funding for projects at the Colorado School of Mines and the ...

The company’s scientists didn’t agree with the way the project was presented to investors.

Algae may be found in oceans and lakes, but some scientists are hoping that the next place you’ll see these organisms is a coal-fired power plant. That’s because algae, which mostly reside in aquatic ...

Algae has tremendous promise as an alternative fuel. But Exxon’s pullout from algae research is a major setback. An algae farm outdoor growth facility at General Atomics in San Diego. (Mark Boster / ...

Marine animals like jellyfish, corals and sea anemones often live with algae inside their cells in a symbiotic relationship. The animals give the algae nutrients and a place to live; in return, algae ...

Senior Research Scientist Mike Lomas works as director of the National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota at Bigelow Laboratory as well as the associated Center for Algal Innovation. Fritz ...

The oil giant has researched how to turn algae into fuel for cars and airplanes for a decade, and trumpeted those efforts as a sign of its climate commitment. But experts say the company is ...

Algae found in the sea can be used to make products as diverse as food, personal care items and flip-flops. To explore those uses, the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will use a $7 million ...

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