To address plastic pollution plaguing the world’s seas and waterways, chemists have developed a new polymer that can degrade by ultraviolet radiation. …read more Source:: Science
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Plastic gets a do-over: Breakthrough discovery recycles plastic from the inside out
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•Researchers have designed a recyclable plastic that, like a Lego playset, can be disassembled into its constituent parts at the molecular level, and then reassembled into a different shape, texture, …read more Source:: Science
Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
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•Researchers have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow, a first. The device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic. …read more Source:: Science
Icy giant planets in the laboratory
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•Giant planets like Neptune may contain much less free hydrogen than previously assumed. Researchers drove shock waves through two different types of plastic to reach the same temperatures and pressures …read more Source:: Science
E. coli tailored to convert plants into renewable chemicals
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•Jet fuel, pantyhose and plastic soda bottles: all three could be made from bioengineered bacteria. …read more Source:: Science
Mind-controlled device helps stroke patients retrain brains to move paralyzed hands
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•Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a plastic brace fitted over their paralyzed hands gained some ability to control their own hands when they …read more Source:: Science
Why do seabirds eat plastic?
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•If it smells like food, and looks like food, it must be food, right? Not in the case of ocean-faring birds that are sometimes found with bellies full of plastic. …read more Source:: Science