In a quiet industrial zone near the New South Wales coast, Australia has restarted a process that had stalled for nearly three years. Quiet, but not small. The site is receiving daily truckloads of a ...

A team of scientists has engineered bacteria that converts chemicals made from plastic bottles into a common drugstore painkiller called paracetamol, which is the active ingredient in Tylenol. Inside ...

The specific properties of vulcanized materials make them essential for many areas of application. In industries such as aerospace, food and beverages and the energy sector, components must meet the ...

With Kris Jenner and other Hollywood stars looking so refreshed and youthful these days, a top Hollywood plastic surgery secret has been exposed as to how celebs can erase wrinkles and sagging while ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new approach to the design of a model-based fault detection and diagnosis system for application to a plastic film extrusion process. The design constructs a residual ...

Kim Zolciak is peeling back the curtain on her plastic surgery. The “Real Housewives of Atlanta” alum broke down every time she has gone under the knife — or the needle — on “Botched Presents: Plastic ...

Plastic’s toughest problem may have just met its smartest solution. A team of scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the ...

In recent decades, plastic pipes have gained an increasingly important role in numerous sectors thanks to their characteristics, including lightness, mechanical strength, flexibility, and durability.

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) production could be revolutionized by the discovery that a common bacterium can turn everyday plastic waste into the painkiller. The new method leaves virtually no carbon ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — June 11, 2025 — Birch Biosciences, a startup focused on AI-powered enzymatic plastic recycling, today announced a global patent license agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...