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It looks like a plastic bag. It acts like a plastic bag. But it dissolves completely in water — unlike a plastic bag. This plastic alternative is the brainchild of Sharon Barak, chief technology ...

At a time when synthetic plastic has polluted nearly every corner of the globe and appeared in food and in the human body, Northeastern University researchers have developed a new plastic that ...

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Researchers in the U.S. have developed integrated circuits that can stick to the skin like a child’s tattoo and in some cases dissolve in water when they’re no longer needed. The “bio chips” can be ...

A new study finds that rinsing biochar removes dissolved organics - the key to trapping toxic lead and cleaning contaminated ...

A domestic research team has developed an electronic device that dissolves and disappears in water to address the issue of electronic waste disposal. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology ...

As the world’s appetite for computers, smartphones and other electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other side of the coin — e-waste — is raising alarms. According to a UN report released last year ...