Why baking or freezing your hard drive turns recoverable data into metallic dust ...

The situation is even worse in a family vehicle like the Jeep Grand Cherokee, where kids will throw things up front or drop their toys.

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is lifting the fog. Using mathematical calculations, ...

Microplastics have been detected in human blood, lungs, and brain tissue. Environmental health advocate Lindsay Dahl explains ...

Plastic-infused asphalt can also save money. Because it lasts longer and resists cracking, cities may spend less on repairs and maintenance. In Rockwall, for example, early estimates suggest these ...

Microplastics (MPs), defined as plastic fragments with sizes ranging from millimeters (<5 mm) to nanometers, have become a growing environmental and public health concern. First identified in the ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Microwaving plastic containers can release millions of ...

Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics are all over the environment and even inside human bodies. Researchers have found a type of bioengineered algae that can clean up these pesky particles.

PHILADELPHIA — Three funeral directors sold hundreds of bodies to a former oral surgeon who allegedly collected the bones, tissue and skin from the corpses to be used in transplants, a grand jury ...

Plastics are ever-present in our society. And they don't decompose, but become tiny particles called microplastics. And those have been found everywhere. Now, they're being found in some unexpected ...