In the U.S. alone, about 4 to 5 billion plastic pill bottles are thrown away each year. That’s enough plastic to circle the Earth multiple times. While they might seem harmless, these bottles ...

McLaren just revealed that it took its $2.1 million W1 hybrid to the Arctic Circle earlier this year for a bit of cold-weather testing. The car's engineers were there to conduct validation tests ...

McLaren has released images and a video of its W1 testing in the Arctic Circle. The V8 hybrid makes 1,258 hp and 988 lb-ft, is McLaren’s most powerful road car yet. Successor to P1 can ...

Credit: Feng-Peng An Plastic scintillator with wavelength-shifting fiber. Credit: Feng-Peng An Team members are checking the appearance of the finished plastic scintillator. Credit: Feng-Peng An ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ever mounted. Yet it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the growing tonnage of discarded ...

Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates. Global plastic recycling rates are now stuck at under 10 per cent, a ...

Scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a new type of plastic that’s just as stable in everyday use but dissolves quickly in saltwater, leaving behind safe compounds. The benefit of plastics ...

Lummus Technology, LLC provided the funding for research on plastic waste pyrolysis oils at UT Arlington. Alexander Kaplitz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths.

Porsche has yet to release its latest. But Ferrari and McLaren have just unveiled their newest specials, and the similarities between the F80 and W1 are surprising. Both cars make heavy use of ...

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in partnership with Eljen Technology, are working on one possible detection solution—a plastic, lithium-6 doped scintillator for ...