Every kitchen has them: plastic containers stained red-orange from leftover food storage. Before you toss them, try these ...

A recent study from scientists at a federal laboratory reported that SARS-CoV-2— the virus causing the current coronavirus pandemic — can live on plastic and stainless steel surfaces for up to ...

Antarctica, the worlds most remote, harsh and pristine continent, is not free from marine pollution. Where human activity ...

This often leads to super glue stuck to your skin, dried to the surface of whatever item you're fixing, and sometimes, it has ...

Here’s a short research paper from 2013 that explains how to create “hydroglyphics”, or writing with selecting surface wetting. In it, an apparently normal-looking petri dish is treated so ...

Dutch designer Paul Coenen used plastic film to create a wrinkled pattern on the anodised aluminium surfaces of furniture and ...

In short it's the Sun. Solar radiation acts on the surface of plastic waste. As it breaks down, becomes cracked and pitted, these defects increase the surface area of plastic available to sunlight ...

Dime shown for scale. Plastic densities in surface slicks off Hawaii were, on average, eight times higher than the plastic densities recently found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Inside the ...

Today's tongue scrapers, or tongue cleaners, are made of plastic or metal. They have a handle with a head that you drag from the back of your tongue to the front to scrape the surface. You can get ...

Singapore is tackling plastic waste by incorporating it into road construction. Collaborating with NUS, the Land Transport ...