Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic. The plastics produced by the ...

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest ...

Plastics are deeply woven into modern life, valued for their strength, clarity, flexibility, and affordability. However, the production and disposal of these materials pose serious environmental ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The ...

Today researchers know that proteins are long polymers made out of a set of twenty small constituents called amino acids (Figure 1). How are proteins made in the cell? The answer to this question ...

A new strategy for recycling spent lithium-ion batteries is based on a hydrometallurgical process in neutral solution. This allows for the extraction of lithium and other valuable metals in an ...

Proteins – large, complex, folded molecules comprised of strings of amino acid building blocks – perform the functions ... Professor Wilson and his team have used a foldamer – a polymer that folds in ...