When heated, poly (lactic acid) (PLA) fibers depolymerize in a controlled manner, making them potentially useful as sacrificial fibers for microchannel fabrication. Catalysts that increase PLA ...

John Fisher, who also owns baseball's Athletics, acquired the Earthquakes with Lew Wolff in 2007 for a $20 million expansion fee, bringing the team back in 2008 after a two-year hiatus.

Lactic acid (LA), a key platform chemical from biomass, is an ideal feedstock for biodegradable plastic synthesis. The conversion of glycerol to LA was investigated over ...

In an A’s-adjacent development, Sportico’s Kurt Badenhousen reports that owner John Fisher is pursuing a sale of his Major League Soccer franchise, the San Jose Earthquakes.

The exposure to ultraviolet rays successfully created a new strain, DLac_Mut2_221, that produces approximately 1.5 times more D-lactic acid. "Further, we performed genetic analyses using ...

The exposure to ultraviolet rays successfully created a new strain, DLac_Mut2_221, that produces approximately 1.5 times more D-lactic acid.

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have successfully increased the production of D-lactic acid from methanol by exposing Komagataella phaffii yeast to ultraviolet irradiation.

The 2025 MLB draft will take place July 13-14 at Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta, Georgia. Jim Callis of MLB.com released a mock draft for the first round. Below are 2025 MLB draft projections and ...

While Boeing's deliveries projection is roughly the same, it pared down its 20-year forecast for passenger traffic growth from 4.7% in last year's outlook to 4.2% this year. Likewise, it lowered its ...