It’s pretty wild how much plastic waste we generate, right? It feels like it’s everywhere. But what if we could actually use ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Every year, 24 million tons of plastic bottles are thrown away worldwide. But what if those discarded water bottles could save lives instead of choking our planet? Scientists ...

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...

Two chemists in lab coats, gloves, and safety glasses work in a fume hood. Chemists at the University of Copenhagen work on a way to recycle polyethylene terephthalate to create a carbon capture ...