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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Europe's first exchange for trading wood pellets, used to replace coal in electricity generation, will be launched on November 3 in the port of Rotterdam, Anglo-Dutch exchange APX Endex said in a statement. The global market of wood pellets is growing as a result of world-wide policies to cut CO2 emissions and replace fossil fuels with renewable sources of energy.

By Nigel Hunt and Ikuko Kurahone LONDON (Reuters) - Major British independent oil firm Greenergy sees its future as an exploration company, but one that hunts for fuel in piles of stale pork pies and cakes rather than under the ground or from food crops. [More]

Most everything you need to know about a particle collider can be summed up with just two numbers. The first is its energy--higher energies let scientists conjure up more massive particles (measured in gigaelectron volts, or GeV). The second is its luminosity, or the number of collisions per second.

The Tevatron. Credit: Fermilab The storied Tevatron particle collider, the most powerful machine of its kind in the U.S.

SpaceX has been the darling in the past few years of the so-called NewSpace movement--private companies aspiring to do the spacefaring work that was once limited to the space programs of the world’s superpowers. [More]

When was the last time you left the doctor's office without a prescription, test or referral? It's probably been a while. And many argue that this increase in care--more drugs, procedures and tests--is a big reason the U.S.

Did the U.S.

By Jessica Marshall of Nature magazine Nanomedicines, advocates say, will one day be commonplace.

Out of control drivers aren’t the only thing city cyclists have to worry about. New research suggests that cyclists are at increased risk of lung damage because of soot

Chimps use rocks to crack open nuts, dolphins use sponges to scare up hidden fish, New Caledonian crows use sticks to fish for insects, certain octopuses--those Einsteins of the invertebrate world--use coconut shells as armor. [More]

In a world where scientific knowledge might be useful in guiding decisions we make individually and collectively, one reason non-scientists might want to listen to scientists is that scientists are presumed to have the expertise to sort reliable knowledge claims from snake oil. [More]

Most of us omnivores eschew turkey tendons, the elastic strands that get in the way of a forkful of pure dark- or light-meat delight. [More]

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Originally posted at Field of Science on April 21, 2011, where it was a Research Blogging Editor’s Selection. [More]