Make this fun and easy insect sensory bottle for kids! A colorful DIY calm-down bottle using dyed coconut, plastic bugs, and simple materials.

I recently threw away my trusty black plastic spatula after a scientific paper claimed that such utensils may contain dangerous levels of flame-retardant chemicals. It turns out the researchers ...

Plastic-eating partners. Dr. Tseng says the next step will be to learn from the insects’ digestive mechanisms how to break down microplastics, and scale up these learnings to address plastic pollution ...

There’s been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming polystyrene. They join the ranks of a small group of insects that have been ...

Analysis - There's been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming polystyrene. They join the ranks of a small group of insects ...