One of the primary achievements of the 787 Dreamliner design is its monocoque fuselage, which has internally integrated ...

Chemists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a "smart" polymer that could make industrial curing, 3D ...

Is it possible to recover plastic recyclates from previously unused waste streams in order to produce high-quality fibers and ...

Plastic pervades modern life, and menstruation is no exception. Since the middle of the 20 th century, many tampons and menstrual pads have contained somewhere between a little and a lot of plastic in ...

An engineering team at Jiangxi Normal University, in collaboration with South China University of Technology, reports an entropy-driven strategy to ...

Most plastics are made from chemicals that come from petrol, gas or coal. They are made by heating these chemicals at a high temperature. When the plastic is soft it can be poured into a mould. Once ...

Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show. By Lisa Friedman The ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

Dr. Jessica Shepherd, chief medical officer for Hers, joins ABC News Live to discuss the rapidly rising flu cases. The team found that the percentage of children who received the MMR vaccine on time ...