Print, Assemble, Drive: The 3-D Printed Plastic Car
In a convention center in Chicago, there's a living-room-sized 3-D printer that's just finished printing the parts for a driveable plastic car. The engineers working on the car -- including those...
View ArticleResearchers Find Just How Much Plastic We’re Putting Into The Ocean
More than 4.8 million metric tons—that’s about how much plastic waste gets dumped into the world’s oceans from land each year. And this number is just a conservative estimate. Researchers believe the...
View ArticleFive Trillion Pieces Of Plastic Are Floating In An Ocean Near You [Interactive]
In December, a consortium of 12 research institutions published some of the first numbers on global ocean plastic pollution.
View ArticlePlastic Waste Could Fuel Your Car One Day
At a factory in Almeria, on the southern coast of Spain, Michael Murray, the CEO of the technology company Cynar, makes an impressive demonstration. A video on Cynar’s website shows him filling a...
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Super-Strong Material Inspired By Squid Teeth Is Self-Healing
The material after being cut and healed together again.Veikko Sariola et al, Scientific Reports, 2015A team of researchers led by engineers from Penn State University has created the first material...
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Mealworms Can Happily And Safely Eat Styrofoam
Mealworms Eating StyrofoamYu YangMealworms are those squirmy guys you took care of in science class or fed to a particularly hungry pet chicken or reptile. And new studies from Stanford suggest that...
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The Plastic Used In 3D Printers Is Toxic To Some Fish
Video of How Toxic Are 3D-Printed Objects?Toxins from 3D printed plastic discs disrupted the development of zebrafish embryos, according to a study published last week in the journal Environmental...
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This Plastic Can Repair Itself
Technology And it could someday mean self-healing smartphone screens Plastic is really hard to fix. A new class of smart plastics can heal breaches all on their own, to mend cracked phone screens or...
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New Plastic Lets You Get All The Shampoo Out Of The Bottle
Technology Soap slides effortlessly off an engineered surface You shake, fill with water, squeeze and pound. You let it sit upside down for a week or two. Trying to get the end of the shampoo out of...
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Harmful Bacteria May Hitch A Sea Cruise On Microplastic Particles
Environment A possible intercontinental vector for disease A new study published in the journal Marine Environmental Research has found that some microplastics may be a home for hitchhikers of a...
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