A researcher thinks he knows what has come ashore on miles of beaches. Canada’s environmental agency says it is still looking ...

Polyvinyl alcohol, aka PVA, PVOH or E1203, is a synthetic plastic polymer. In our homes, it’s most commonly found as the thin ...

Spurred by advances in energy-harvesting materials, a new generation of advanced implantable biomedical devices is emerging ...

Dig deep into the ingredients lists of many items, and it shouldn't be surprising to find some sort of plastic among them. Polyvinyl alcohol, or PVA, is a polymer — technically a plastic — that's used ...

Department of Materials and Life Science, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, 2200-2 Toyosawa, Fukuroi, Shizuoka 437-8555, Japan ...

Scientists develop artificial skin that can detect touch like human skin while solving electronic waste problems through a ...

However, many modern phones now commonly feature lithium-polymer (Li-poly) batteries, a suitable alternative for a wide variety of consumer electronic gadgets. This certainly isn’t a fact to ...

P erplexing white blobs have been washing up on the shores of Newfoundland, Canada, in recent months, and one team of ...

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China ...

Researcher has found the most probable conclusion is that the globs are likely an industrial-strength glue used as an ...