A pergola is a popular name for a canopy or extension. Originally, pergolas were invented to be used in gardening for climbing plants. Today, they are erected to protect a terrace or passage from the ...

There are a great many explanations about what pergolas are, what they are made of and what they are needed for. But most of these descriptions are based on the old understanding of pergola. That is, ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...