A soft robot crawls, climbs, and snaps into new shapes using a single air input, enhancing adaptability for medical and rescue applications.

A major oil and gas company is evaluating the possibility of building an $8.6 billion plastics plant on the Texas Gulf Coast, and according to a report, environmentalists are already on edge.

Exxon’s proposal calls for a steam cracker, a facility that uses oil and natural gas to make ethylene and propylene — the chemical building blocks of plastic. Factories like this produce and ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates defended the USAID amid Elon Musk's attempt to dismantle the agency, saying "they’re not actually worms that work there." (ABC News) “A lot of private sector ...

including mixed plastics deemed ‘unrecyclable’, and break it down into chemicals that are similar to those extracted from crude oil. With further processing, these chemicals can be turned back ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows. This appraisal of microplastics and ...

THE fight against plastic waste ramps up at the start of the year with the launch of two separate movements with similar goals and strategies last January. First, the National Plastic Action ...

The engineers previously demonstrated this concept in a soft robot inspired by a lionfish back in 2019. Now, they've developed a worm and a jellyfish that are powered by a circulating hydraulic ...

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US futures settle at lowest so far this year US crude oil inventories rose last week, EIA says US still plans to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico Saudi and other OPEC+ ministers meet next week Jan ...

A Cape Breton biomanufacturing plant that would essentially take the place of an oil refinery by turning living molecules ... They include businesses that produce bio-based dyes, bio-based plastics, ...