"As silly stunts for social media go, this might not be quite as dangerous as eating Tide Pods, but it is still extremely ...

consider the future of those polystyrene peanuts. Experts at Australia's RMIT University think they can recycle the would-be trash into a material that can make electricity using wind, and they ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Packing peanuts made from a material called polystyrene are used to protect products while being shipped. Yet, these little pieces of foam can have several other ...

Now, researchers at Purdue University have shown how to manufacture carbon-nanoparticle and microsheet anodes from polystyrene and starch-based packing peanuts, respectively. “We were getting a ...