P lastics are easy to throw out but hard to get rid of. Unlike biodegradable materials, bacteria and fungi haven’t evolved the ability to break them down, leaving plastic garbage to languish for ...

Plastic pollution has an impact on human health in addition to causing problems for the environment and our planet.

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

The photos could reveal new details about the visitor from another star system. A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal ...

A newly discovered enzyme motif reveals how ocean microbes are evolving to digest plastic, potentially aiding future cleanup ...

Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

In a world that's hungry for energy and showing no sign of slowing down, there is no industrial process more voracious than petrochemical manufacturing. Since the early 20th century, everything from ...

City College of New York Grove School of Engineering: advanced plastic recycling could save massive amounts of energy. Recycling could also significantly cut emissions from plastic-making.

Images of Yarrowia lipolytica surrounding and growing on polyolefin oil droplets (large red circles). Cells were stained blue to show the chitin cell walls and red to show the lipid bodies inside the ...