Synthetic materials, like plastic, are made from chemicals. Most metals are strong, hard and shiny materials that can be hammered into different shapes without breaking. They are good conductors ...

“This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space,” ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish we eat. Scientists are racing to figure out what that means for our health. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of ...

Microplastics have been steadily increasing in freshwater environments for decades and are directly tied to rising global ...

Inger Andersen, director of the UN Environment Programme, and UNEA-6 president Leila Benali with the plastic monster at ...

Many things remain unknown about how microplastics could affect health, including the role played by their size, shape and composition. Many plastics are a complex cocktail of polymers and ...

Compared to another common plastic that can be found in every ocean in the world, Styrofoam showed zero degradation in that same period. Polystyrene, also known as Styrofoam, may change shape ...

The report included analysis of the plastics with six different polymers identified ... nanoparticles was also found in both ...

plastic clip-covered octopus that’s ideal for hang-drying delicates. I also tested two of my top picks — the Honey-Can-Do Gullwing rack and the Polder Compact Accordion rack — in my own home.

We tested various gift-wrapping tools and spoke to professional gift wrappers to help make holiday wrapping easier. Here are ...

An “unrecognizable” Gwen Stefani just returned to The Voice — and it’s not just her new hairstyle that makes her look so different. Plastic surgeons speculate she may have blown almost ...

30 that it had completed acquisition of Sankt Leon-Rot, Germany-headquartered automation solutions specialist MA micro automation ... stated both companies have different weaknesses, so putting ...