Some science experiments last a few minutes. Some take years. And then there is ...
The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic. This has been shown in laboratory experiments by Ph.D. student Maaike Goudriaan at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ ...
In 1907, Leo Baekeland's persistent research, not a lucky accident, led to Bakelite, the world's first fully synthetic ...