Amid a recent flurry of worrisome reports about plastic, a simple question came up: Could we live without it? Could my typical family -- a mom, a dad, a 3-year-old girl and a 7-month-old boy -- put ...

Plastic that behaves like a sturdy fork on your picnic table and then quietly melts back into the soil sounds like science ...

This Friday (July 9), we will explore the chemistry of milk plastic, (or casein plastic) in our new kids video series: Summer School with Live Science. In this week's installment, Live Science ...

What started as an experiment to go plastic free for an entire month has become a way of life for Alba Fernandez. The environmentalist knew that eradicating plastic from her life completely was a near ...

Try going without plastics for a full day and see if you can do it. Chances are it might not be possible, should you choose to undertake such an odd endeavor — as one ambitious New York City man just ...

The evidence is starting to build around the ability of tiny fragments of plastic to make their way into all corners of the human body, with these particles recently discovered in living lungs and the ...

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Rising air is all around us— outside and inside. It's what meteorologists call "convection." Warm air is lighter and less dense than cold air, so it has buoyancy and wants to ...

Using plastic lab equipment can skew or ruin the results of medical experiments, a new study finds. Researchers identified two classes of chemical compounds in commonly-used plastic lab ware that ...

We can now add plastic bag bans to the list of “well-meaning but failed experiments” being run in California. Both outlets pin the blame on special interests lobbying for exemptions to the ban, which ...