Plastics are rotting the world, turning natural habitats into junkyards. More than 90% of manufactured plastics end up in the environment, polluting landscapes and water bodies, harming ecosystems, ...

They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in ...

Atomic force microscopy reveals three distinct dynamic states in individual polymer chain segments on surfaces, challenging ...