Ward’s holy-smokes experience was common in the early days of super shoes. Also common was the belief that the carbon-fiber ...

Our current recycling infrastructure is finicky: It’s not good at differentiating between different types of plastic, and if it gets confused, it errs on the side of landfill. (Because if the ...

But the process of polymerisation is often imperfect, and some of the unpolymerised monomers that remain in plastic, like different types of styrene and bisphenol, pose major environmental and ...

Increasingly, studies are finding that some chemicals used to make different kinds of plastic, rigid or flexible, can affect biological processes within the body, often by disrupting hormones.

But the process of polymerisation is often imperfect, and some of the unpolymerised monomers that remain in plastic, like different types of styrene and bisphenol, pose major environmental and health ...

In the new study published in the Cell Press journal Chem, researchers were able to store and decode an 11-character password encoded in the molecular makeup of a piece of plastic. The technology ...

Imagine you’re filling up 100 bags of coffee. You’re using beans from a few different providers — 10 percent of the beans they sent you are decaffeinated and the rest are caffeinated.

Now, new research, published Friday in Science Advances, reexamines the U.S.’s role as a plastic consumer and concludes that the country has much more work to do at home to manage its waste.

On a remote Australian island renowned for its natural beauty, researchers have made a grisly discovery: Seabirds have ingested so much plastic they crunch when touched. The “harrowing ...

The recall was voluntarily initiated by Wells Enterprises, Inc. The recall affects 22 different flavors of ice ... pulled the flavors due to concerns of plastic being introduced into the product ...

Scientists have long known that making plastic warms the planet. But plastic may be heating the Earth even more than we realized, according to a report released Wednesday. The Plastics & Climate ...