microplastics

Some 74 metric tons of microplastics dropped out of the atmosphere onto the New Zealand city of Auckland in 2020, according to a study published this week in Environmental Science &…

Vortex generation by multiple swimming robots. The diameter of the multiple robots is 460 µm. Credit: S. Won, et al.,…

Teflon, the brand name for PolyTetraFluoroEthylene (or PTFE), which is used to make nonstick pans, is generally stable and non-toxic below about 260 degrees centigrade, says Professor Oliver…

So what, you might ask—it’s just plastic! After all, if you accidentally swallow a shirt button, it’ll pass straight through you, right? But when it’s broken down into microscopic fibers,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain DGIST has announced that a research team led by Professor…

These scanning electron microscope images show silk-coated microcapsules containing vitamin C, at different scales of…

Barcelona, July 13 Mounted on paddle boards or kayaks with special trawling nets attached to them, scientists and volunteers crisscross the…

Reuters Beijing, July 12 Robot fish that “eat” microplastics may one day help to clean up the…

By Shubhangi Shah While the government’s move to ban single-use plastic items starting July 1 is a step in the right direction, the menace of plastic is much larger, or should we say too…

While we know where the plastics came from, the origin of this particular tar wasn’t clear. But generally speaking, whenever oil spills, it floats around and partially evaporates, thickening…