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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Among these, plastic pollution stands out, as it has created a unique new ecological niche in the ocean. Once it gets into the water, plastic debris provides surfaces that can be quickly colonised by ...