Plastic waste is everywhere you look, and there’s seemingly no end in sight for both the demand and production of plastic goods. So isn’t it time to try putting all that waste from the plastic ...

The team placed 14 pieces of various plastic types on a beach in southern Gippsland, Victoria, to test the BPDI using WorldView-3, an Earth-observing satellite operated by Maxar Technologies.

We join the scientists venturing into the deepest places on Earth to study life and the universe. Disease-causing microorganisms churn in the floodwaters after a hurricane and grow in people's ...

Midway will probably vanish under rising ocean levels before the plastic decays. "These are the classic 'canary in the coal mine' scenarios," said Brown. "This is an animal that relies entirely on ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Plastic Layer of the Earth's Mantle ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 207 No. 1 (July 1962), p. 52 doi:10.1038 ...

The near side is what's visible to us. As the moon orbits the Earth, the sun lights up half of it, and that's when we see the ...

A touching portrait of the reluctant comedy writer Douglas Adams who died this May. Absurdly tall, he is described as brilliant, deeply absent minded, a 'force of nature' who 'quite often forgot ...

BEIJING--China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth on Tuesday with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in northern China ...