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Over multiple generations, small nematode worms began preferring microplastic-contaminated food over cleaner options, which ...
A bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a new study finds. Scientists hope it is a pollution solution.
Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...
On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...
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2,000 ‘plastivore’ caterpillars can gobble a stubborn plastic bag in 24 hours“Around 2,000 waxworms can break down an entire polyethylene bag in as little as 24 hours, although we believe that ...
From your phone to your sponge, your toothbrush to your trolley handle, invisible armies of bacteria are lurking on the ...
At the University of Nigeria, Enugu, a group of scientists is quietly leading a climate revolution—using methane-eating ...
Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.
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Engineered E. Coli Transforms Waste Plastic Into Common PainkillerNew research has made encouraging progress in tackling not one but two of the biggest problems facing our planet right now: plastic pollution and the use of fossil fuels as part of drug manufacturing ...
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