Despite the planet's growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient. They ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Stephen Techtmann, a microbiologist at Michigan ...

A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding.

Cyclyx International, a consortium-based post-use plastic innovation company with a mission to increase the recyclability of plastic from 10 percent to 90 percent, has announced the opening of a new ...

For decades, plastic has been designed to last, not to leave. The result is a planet laced with microplastics that persist in oceans, soil, and even human bloodstreams. Now a team of Japanese ...

It was technically a successful scientific discovery when analysts at the Hennepin County forensic science lab recognized there was a contaminant somewhere in its DNA process. That did not lessen the ...

If you’ve worked in a bio or chem lab, you’ve probably found yourself handling all manner of plastic. Test tubes, fixtures, clamps — there’s a cavalcade of this stuff that fattens up the order books ...