Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...

Rutgers Health researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides ...

Weiser made the announcement at a press conference at the Colorado State Capitol, where he emphasized his support for new legislation that empowers school districts to develop their own cell phone ...

Together with researchers at Karolinska Institutet, the research team at Campus Norrköping has succeeded in anchoring the conductive plastic to individual living cell membranes. This opens up for ...

A recent study from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India has revealed new details about how our cells clean up and recycle waste. This process, known as autophagy, is like a self ...

In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying specklelike structures called P ...

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...

It is also found in touch screens, organic solar cells and electrochromic devices ... As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan ...

Colorado’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) Division helped successfully provide and process more than 135,000 paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) claims in its first year of ...