Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

FALMOUTH - Plastic straws are easy, convenient, and part of our takeaway culture. There have been paper substitutes out there, but they turn to mush and don't do the job. Researchers in Massachusetts ...

We don’t often think of our clothing as plastic, but much of it is. Polyester, nylon, acrylic and other synthetic fibers are commonplace in the blended fabrics we wear every day. As a result, textiles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By copying how natural polymers fold and fall apart, researchers created materials that stay strong in use, then break down under ...

Victor Gambarini was supported by a Ph.D. stipend from the George Mason Centre for the Natural Environment (New Zealand). Additional support was provided by the Aotearoa Impacts and Mitigation of ...

(CNN) — The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, ...

My family came from India, but I was born in Dubai back when it was still a desert. When I was young, we moved to Ottawa, where my parents taught me the importance of giving back to our community. At ...