2017–2026 GM Timing Covers Fail Due to Gasket Hardening and Improper Torque The timing cover is a rigid housing—often aluminum, steel, or composite plastic—bolted to the front of an engine to shield ...

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Biodegradable plastics are usually sought after for their ability to break down quickly. However, this does not tell us how safely a product can be used before it degrades. A research team has ...

Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms for expelling foreign ...

If you watched Netflix’s The Plastic Detox recently, you may have come away feeling alarmed that these tiny plastic particles—called microplastics—seem to be everywhere. It can be a confusing ...

Some environmentalists question using plastic to address rising temperatures. The skate rink at Mahoney State Park in Ashland, Neb., was recently replaced with a synthetic ice surface to keep the rink ...

According to Greenpeace, only 9% of the world's plastic gets recycled. Instead, plastic waste continues to collect in our landfills and in our oceans. Other than recycling, the only way to reduce ...

The thought came to Cassandra Rauert while she was new on the job as an analytical chemist studying microplastics in human tissues: Maybe I should test my own blood? This was six years ago, and while ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, food packaging and transport. But it’s also created one of the defining ...

I spoke with a public health professor and a toxicologist to learn if microwaving leftovers is the reason why microplastics enter our food and body. Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based ...