Several global trends are colliding with disastrous consequences for health and the environment, new research warns. Plastic production has skyrocketed since the 1950s, from a few million tons a year ...

The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has established a technique for cultivating human mesenchymal stem cells, widely used in regenerative medicine, on the surface of an ionic liquid. A ...

The federal government will begin the long-awaited cleanup of a nuclear waste dump outside Apollo in Armstrong County. Thai officials said they seized 238 tons of illegally imported electronic waste ...

A discovery led by the University of St Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs. Imagine a remote Galapagos beach, where iguanas ...