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Rich in vitamins and minerals, spirulina is a type of blue-green algae commonly used as a dietary supplement that you may have mixed into a drink as a powder or taken in a tablet when you were on a ...

AZoM talks to Mehran Ghasemlou, a research fellow at RMIT University, about his research that has developed a self-cleaning and biodegradable bioplastic that is inspired by the lotus leaf. Please can ...

Society has long struggled with petroleum-derived plastic pollution, and awareness of microplastics' detrimental effects on food and water supplies adds further pressure. In response, researchers have ...

Bioplastics are plastics made from renewable biological material, usually plants, waste, or microorganisms rather than petroleum or natural gas. Many bioplastics can be far more beneficial to the ...

Plastic pollution is a mounting global issue, but scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have taken a bold step forward by creating a new bioplastic inspired by the structure of leaves.

Future plastic habitats on Mars could be created from locally grown algae that could then host more algae-growing operations. The first step of such a circular system has been shown to work in ...

As humanity increasingly looks to the stars, the dream of establishing sustainable colonies on Mars becomes more realistic. A significant breakthrough in this direction was recently made by scientists ...