Granulating, melting, and shaping reclaimed plastic into Solar Flare Coat Hooks, which are simple, functional, and ...

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 ...

Researchers have transformed food waste sugars into natural plastic films that could one day replace petroleum-based ...

Mixing nanoparticles into some common plastics made them harder to break and possibly easier to process, pointing towards a ...

The world’s plastic crisis isn’t simply environmental; it’s existential. A recent study in the journal Nature Medicine found that brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics (equivalent to a ...

Only about 10% of plastic produced annually is recycled, with most ending up in landfills. Scientists mimicked the strong, layered structure of seashells to create a more reliable and consistent ...

It boggles the mind to know we humans are literally made of stardust. Nearly all the elements in our bodies come from the stuff produced as stars exploded over the last 13 billion years. It boggles ...