It’s common practice to recycle paper, glass, and many plastics—in fact, about 35% of the trash produced in the U.S. is recycled or composted.
Why don’t we recycle styrofoam?
Harvesting energy from heartbeats
Researchers created thin, flexible electronic devices that efficiently harvest the mechanical energy from natural motions of the human body.
Program focuses on future materials scientists
With advances in science and technology, today’s high school students could end up working with materials that don’t even exist today.
Tiny grains of lithium improve fusion plasma performance
Scientists from General Atomics and the U.S. DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) discovered a phenomenon that helps improve fusion plasmas, which could ultimately speed fusion energy development.
Tinkertoy materials hold promise as temperature regulators
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, Calif., researchers made the first measurements of thermoelectric behavior by a nanoporous metal-organic framework (MOF).