A swarm of tiny, shape-changing, all-metal robots might someday deliver drugs and capture biopsy samples painlessly and then ...

Biodegradable plastics have been advertised as one solution to the plastic pollution problem bedeviling the world, but today's "compostable" plastic bags, utensils and cup lids don't break down during ...

Scientists in Switzerland will have you thinking twice before saying "hold the mushrooms" on your next food order. That's because the researchers have successfully created a fungal device that can ...

Disposable diapers are a $60 billion business, and are a terror on the environment. ZymoChem is using a special fermentation process to make biodegradable absorbent ...

Mango Materials, a California-based company that creates biodegradable polymers for use in plastic products, has been scaling up and commercializing a biomanufacturing technology that utilizes methane ...

After being used for military purposes during the Civil War, coal was first used to generate electricity for homes and factories in the 1880s. As a fossil fuel, coal played an important role in the ...

Binghamton PhD student Tianzheng Liu, left, and Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor Sha Jin have developed a method to turn food waste into biodegradable plastic. According to the U.S.

HERZOGENAURACH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sports company PUMA has developed an experimental version of its most iconic sneaker, the SUEDE, to test for a product to make it biodegradable. By doing so, ...