Every year, companies produce more than 400 million metric tons of plastic. Some of that plastic spills onto waterways or beaches, clogging streams or floating in huge gyres in the ocean.

Plastic is a hallmark of our civilization. It is a family of highly formable (hence the name), versatile and durable materials, most of which are also persistent in nature and therefore a ...

A microbial plastic factory for high-quality green plastic. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 27, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 04 / 240409205601.htm ...

Some recent research efforts have used plastic to improve the color realism of display technologies. Now, in a study recently published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, researchers from ...

The famed plastic surgeon behind the Kardashian family ... often performed breast augmentations on Playboy magazine's many models, centerfolds, and Bunnies. Despite the Kardashian family's ...

Apple today released several open source large language models (LLMs) that are designed to run on-device rather than through cloud servers. Called OpenELM (Open-source Efficient Language Models ...

Making the switch away from plastic usage can feel like a near-impossible task. "Whether we like it or not, plastics are not going away," said Christopher Reddy, Scientist at Woods Hole ...

China stopped taking our plastic waste. Now we're drowning in it. America has long had a plastic problem. It's an urgent question — what do we do with the 40 million tons of plastic waste we ...

The researchers concluded that for every percentage increase in plastic produced, there was an equivalent increase in plastic pollution in the environment. “Production really is pollution,” sa ...

MANILA, Philippines — Land Transportation Office (LTO) head Vigor Mendoza II said Tuesday that drivers whose licenses expired from April to August 2023 should now apply for renewal as plastic ...

The UK is starting to draft regulations to govern artificial intelligence, focusing on the most powerful language models which underpin OpenAI’s ChatGPT, people familiar with the matter said ...