The "coral defenders" are made of plastic called PHA. Similar to a potato starch, it naturally breaks down when exposed, ...

In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices -- ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent at dissipating heat -- a team of researchers made a discovery: ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a way to break down plastics into their basic components, potentially revolutionizing ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

A lab-on-a-chip is a class of device that integrates and automates multiple laboratory techniques into a system that fits on a chip up to a maximum of a few square centimetres in size. By ...

Thunder X3's Lab-X is a worthy competitor to the Secretlab Magnus Pro Xl as it's lighter and cheaper. Fingerprints are its ...

Editor’s note: The Lab Report is a weekly series in The Badger Herald’s print edition where we take a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. University ...

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths.

Germany's foreign intelligence service believed there was a 80-90% chance that coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab, German media say. Two German newspapers say they have uncovered ...

GreenLabs Recycling, a Concord, Mass.-based lab science plastics recycling startup, is expanding its business nationally through a partnership with French environmental services company Veolia.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Sandia National Labs is working on new research that would allow plastics to self-destruct once they are no longer useful. The Environmental Protection Agency says ...