After surviving countless ridiculous experiments, Frank the truck faces his final test. From trying to make the engine ...

In 2022, the University of Florida had every reason to believe it was entering a golden age. U.S. News & World Report ranked the university fifth among public universities. I was an undergraduate ...

A historically strong Super El Niño is forecast to take hold sometime this summer, virtually shutting down hurricane formation in the open waters of the Atlantic and unleashing a stormy second half of ...

A living plastic with a pair of cooperative, plastic-busting enzymes degraded the material completely within six days. Credit: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2026. Plastic is useful because it is ...

Modern plastics are designed for durability, but that same strength allows waste to accumulate long after products are discarded. Now, researchers have created a “living plastic” that stays stable ...

In brief: Plastic that can breaks itself down when no longer needed sounds like something from sci-fi, but Chinese scientists have moved the idea closer to reality. Their prototype embeds dormant ...

Researchers have developed a new type of plastic that can self-destruct on command. These materials incorporate activatable, plastic-degrading microbes alongside the polymers. The team used two ...

Many plastic products are designed to be used only once, yet the material itself lasts for years. But a new strategy is addressing this problem by creating products that self-destruct on command, ...

Speaking at the inauguration of a memorial museum dedicated to North Korean soldiers killed in the conflict, the North Korean dictator praised what he described as the "extraordinary heroism" of ...

Sometimes you need to send something private… really private. Not “I’ll just delete it later” private, but “Mission: Impossible’s self-destruct after being read” private. That’s when I turn to ...