Previous reports have suggested that Apple is planning to fit a 200-megapixel camera to an iPhone in either 2027 or 2028. While squeezing ever more pixels into the same size sensor would be bad news ...

A drug to treat Parkinson's disease can be made from waste plastic bottles using a pioneering method, a study shows. The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic ...

University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to turn plastic waste into a Parkinson's drug, advancing a new approach known as "bio-upcycling". The University of Edinburgh biotechnology ...

By deploying the AI Agent Factory Management System, the center has achieved unmanned production, eliminating the need for 20 sorting workers per shift. Throughput has surged from 2 to 10 tons per ...

This study developed and validated an AI-driven, transferable city-scale assessment framework for municipal living plastic waste. By aligning life-cycle environmental accounting with process-based ...

Jie Wu, an engineering graduate student, was studying a type of striking white beetle found in Southeast Asia and attempting to figure out how to mimic its brilliant color when an unexpected discovery ...

Recycled plastics are promoted on everything from water bottles and fleece jackets to shopping bags and yogurt cups. Verifying such claims, however, is another matter because there is no quick and ...

Automated sorting equipment from Tomra Recycling is helping a Spanish company convert discarded food trays into food-contact-grade PET plastic. An AutoSort unit with near-infrared technology plays a ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have developed a biological process to convert PET plastics from food and beverage packaging into a medication for dopamine replacement therapy for ...

The 105-metre-long and 5.5-metre-wide road, constructed using plastic-mixed bitumen, has drawn attention as a step in waste management.