Picture this: a 21-year-old backyard scientist in Alabama, Julian Brown, sweeps away some dirt and leaves from his homemade solar- and generator-powered, 10-magnetron-powered pyrolysis microwave ...

Plasticizers—the most common of which are called phthalates—are used to make plastic more flexible and more durable. They’re so widely used that today, they show up inside almost all of us, right ...

Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in ...

Scientists invent process that converts plastic bottles into paracetamol, which is a common drugstore painkiller used in ...

Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges, or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save ...