ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

Next-Generation Plastic Designed To Be Recycled Over And Over Again

Scientists have made a next-generation plastic that can be recycled again and again. A team of researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has designed a recyclable plastic that can be disassembled into its principal parts at the molecular level, and then reassembled into a different shape, texture, and color again and again without loss of performance or quality.

New Ways of Improving Modern Wheat

Study has revealed knowledge of an extensive and rich gene pool for future breeding improvements of Triticum aestivum

Paper Wasps Show the Ability to Reason Similar to Humans

Wasp queens were recently tested on their reasoning skills and the results are surprising. Certain wasps may be able to understand associations and unknowns about their surroundings, according to a recent study.

Lab-Grown Meat, Will it Benefit the Environment?

The industry of growing meat in laboratories is now growing and is getting closer to consumers. The lab-grown meat industry saw rapid growth over the course of the last year, with a capital investment totaling of up to $73.

Two Flower Species Teach Us How Close Relatives Can Coexist

Self-pollination helps to reduce the negative impact of reproductive interference According to a new discovery by scientists, two closely-related species of Asiatic dayflower can coexist in the wild despite their competitive relationship.

Mysterious Holes that Keep Opening Up in Antarctica

In the early 1970s, when satellites first began snapping photos of Earth, scientists noticed a mysterious hole in one of Antarctica's seasonal ice packs, floating on the Lazarev Sea. Come summertime the gap had disappeared, and for decades the strange event went unexplained.
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