Recovery rafts made by Jack's Plastic Welding in Aztec, New Mexico, will play a vital role in retrieving astronauts from NASA ...

Which is why, once again, plastics quietly prove they are the grown-ups in the room. The back shell panels serve as the outer layer of the spacecraft and are built to protect it against the extreme ...

​The Tabs On Foil Boxes ​Most of us navigate the kitchen on autopilot, repeating the same motions we learned from […] ...

In “Plastique” at Albany’s Opalka Gallery, 11 artists, including Aurora Robson and Portia Munson, transform plastic waste ...

A. J. Jacobs, writer for The New York Times, shared his attempt to avoid plastic in an article published Jan. 15, 2023: “On the morning of the day I had decided to go without using plastic products—or ...

One plastic surgeon's botch job is another one's new work. Following a pandemic-era boom in plastic surgery (with procedures increasing 19% from 2019 to 2022), about 1.6 million Americans got cosmetic ...

A girl sat alone on the school bus, isolated by classmates who teased her for her cleft lip and palate. After reconstructive surgery transformed her face and social standing, a young medical student, ...

A displaced polar vortex is expected to bring dangerously cold temperatures to much of the U.S. The arctic blast is driven by a weakened polar vortex, which allows frigid air to move south from the ...

There is a major weather pattern change underway across the U.S. As we get into next week, the storm track looks really interesting. Major upper-air pattern changes are quite normal. Sometimes we have ...

Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, ...