If there’s one thing that makes me vomit in my mouth, it’s plastic gadgets painted silver. It’s not the plastic. I like plastic fine. And although I prefer solid molded colors, painting plastic with ...

Plastic can be a very useful medium, but our throw away culture has also made it a huge pollution problem – especially when it ends up in the sea. While efforts like the Ocean Cleanup attempt to deal ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have made plastic conductive while also making it more transparent by incorporating silver, copper, zinc and aluminium to sheets of the material. In a paper ...