Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

How plastic bottles have been transformed into a life-changing drug - Around 166,000 people live with Parkinson's in the UK ...

Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our health ...

A drug to treat Parkinson's disease can be made from waste plastic bottles using a pioneering method, a study shows. The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic ...

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...