Ever wonder how some of the stuff we use every day came to be? I think about it sometimes when I’m at the stove with my favorite sauté pan, with its perfect trifecta of size, weight and performance.

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 ...

The study also found that human cells absorbed the plastic particles, suggesting that microplastics could remain in the body after drinking tea. To reduce your exposure without giving up tea ...

Yuck. A study published by the Independent University of Barcelona in December looked into just how much micro- and nano-plastic is shedding into each cup of tea. They looked at three different types ...