Plastics

Reports have emerged suggesting that plastic particles are making their way into our bodies, clogging arteries that may be leading…

Delegates from 191 countries meet once again this month for the UN plastics treaty talks in Ottawa, and they need…

Satakorn Sukontakajonkul/Alamy I spend an inordinate amount of time in my kitchen scrutinising pieces of plastic, trying to discern whether…

A research team from Osaka Metropolitan University that had previously succeeded in synthesizing fumaric acid using bicarbonate and pyruvic acid,…

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed an artificial ‘worm gut’ to break down…