As oil starts to run dry, demand rises for hybrid cars, and electric cars make their way from conceptual design to mass production, the future of transport, experts say, lies in lithium.

Algae are the focus of attempts to achieve commercially-viable systems for harnessing photosynthesis for atmospheric CO2 fixation and biosynthesis of fuels.

Money may not buy happiness, but can happiness make us money? Is it just that we have had the causality wrong all along?