How many tiny pieces of plastic are currently inside your body?No one disputes that these mostly invisible pieces of plastic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Little more than a century after the widespread adoption of plastic, microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) have wormed their way into every ...

In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel Universities have discovered that mosquito stingers might one day be used for ...

This is one of those small things that bothers people as they walk through the grocery store aisles. There is one cucumber wrapped in clear plastic sitting in a pile of fruit that doesn't seem to need ...

RIT’s print and graphic media technology curriculum is being integrated into the packaging science program to align with growing and evolving industries. “For generations, the print and graphic media ...

Sarah is a successful physician in New York City, a fact that, theoretically at least, has very little to do with how she looks. She would, presumably, be a successful physician in New York City ...

A team of chemists has discovered how to transform PET plastic waste into BAETA, a material that captures CO2 with remarkable efficiency. Instead of ending up as microplastics in the environment, ...

Plastic recycling startup Novoloop has inked a deal with a major manufacturer to produce its upcycled thermoplastic polyurethane at commercial scale, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The agreement ...

Several new projects turn waste into food for microbes that create PHA, a type of plastic that fully decomposes on its own, offering a less costly alternative to current bioplastics. This fork made of ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The U.S. Senate approved a resolution designating Sept. 14-20, 2025, as National Forensic Science Week. The resolution was introduced by Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and ...

MERIDEN, Conn. (WTNH) — State officials, lawmakers and first responders got a behind-the-scenes look of the Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory on Tuesday in honor of National Forensic Science ...

Zoë Schlanger, a science writer at The Atlantic, was looking for a story last October when she got an email about a new study warning how the chemicals in black-plastic cookware could be leaching into ...