In a basement laboratory at the University of New Mexico, Marcus Garcia rummaged through a bin full of plastic waste. He ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying ...

Plastics are becoming more present in the seas and oceans around the world. The Mediterranean — a semi-enclosed marine basin ...

The elective medical industry is cashing in on plastic pollution fears, but the evidence of harm from microplastics is still ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to west Texas after a second elementary school-aged child who was not vaccinated died from a measles-related illness.

In a leap forward for materials science, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a pioneering method of 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), enabling complex ...

We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly and we have all seen pictures and videos of marine life being harmed by plastic. While many environmental issues are controversia ...

Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic. The plastics produced by the modified Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria are known as polyester ...

Scientists have been complaining for years that the way we fund science is flawed. Researchers are too often waiting up to 20 months for grant funding, an eternity in fast-moving fields like ...

The Shark Trust reports a fantastic number of shark and ray eggcases recorded across the UK this year during its Great Easter Eggcase Hunt.

Schug receives funding from the National Science Foundation ... Lummus Technology, LLC provided the funding for research on plastic waste pyrolysis oils at UT Arlington. Alexander Kaplitz does ...