Now, new research, published Friday in Science Advances, reexamines the U.S.’s role as a plastic consumer and concludes that the country has much more work to do at home to manage its waste.

The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind. They’re also inside us. Last October ...

We studied six plastic scintillators manufactured by two different companies (Bicron and Amcrys-H) in terms of emission spectrum, light yield, time response, and linearity of the scintillation ...

Herein, we designed and fabricated a top-filter-bottom (TFB) sandwich structure scintillator for high-resolution DEXI within a single exposure. More specifically, the low- and high-energy X-ray ...

Thousands of tubs of over a dozen ice cream varieties were recalled due to potential plastic contamination. Wells Enterprises issued the voluntary recall back in April. Wells owns popular ice cream ...

Both energy resolution and spatial resolution depend on the size of the signal generated with each detected event. Scintillation cameras using NaI(Tl) have high intrinsic efficiency for γ-rays of <200 ...

Around 30 tonnes of waste plastic from oyster farms has been shredded down to be more easily transported to recycling facilities. The NSW government has funded a three-week project visiting ...

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He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. Polylactic acid (PLA), a plastic substitute made from fermented plant starch (usually corn) is quickly becoming a popular alternative ...

As the trend towards the international dispersion of certain value chain activities produces challenges, discover policies to meet these Tax transparency and international co-operation Enhanced ...

A hospital specialist has invented a new product that manages to reduce plastic and simplify the process of testing urine. Consultant urologist Dr Nick Burns-Cox has been working on his own ...