Science news articles about 'multibillion dollar industry'

... for making diamonds in the laboratory, kicking off a multibillion-dollar industry, died Friday at his home in Provo, Utah. He was 88 and had Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.

... critical. "The biofuels industry has grown at an incredible rate. It╒s a multibillion-dollar industry now," says Johnston, a graduate student in the Nelson Institute's Center for Sustainability and ...

... process requiring significant energy input. Oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of propane to propylene is a multibillion dollar industrial process. ODH of alkanes is exothermic, and thus an attractive ...

... that concrete is the most prevalent man-made material on earth and the focus of a multibillion-dollar industry that is under pressure to clean up its act. The manufacture of cement is responsible for ...

... a leak and shut down this spring, it threw a multibillion-dollar industry into crisis. Before it broke, the reactor produced nearly two thirds of the U.S. supply of molybdenum-99 ...