‘Plastic is a product of brilliant engineering’—Now let’s make it environmentally safer

‘Plastic is a product of brilliant engineering’ — Now let’s make it better for the environment

Genetic Literacy Project |
Materials scientists are cooking up environmentally friendly polymers from natural sources like silk, plant fibers and whole algae ...
A start-up hopes to create carbon-storing ‘super-trees’. Hype or a possible breakthrough to address climate change?

A start-up hopes to create carbon-storing ‘super-trees’. Hype or a possible breakthrough to address climate change?

MIT Technology Review |
At Living Carbon, [Patrick] Mellor is trying to design trees that grow faster and grab more carbon than their natural ...