Responding to consumer dissatisfaction with vacuum-packed minced meat, Iceland Foods is re-introducing plastic trays to its beef and pork mince products. Six months ago, Iceland repackaged its beef ...

This action decreases pressure and increases the space in the thoracic cavity, allowing your lungs to expand as you inhale. When the diaphragm relaxes, your chest cavity becomes smaller and your lungs ...

Each pleura is a single membrane that folds back on itself to form two layers. The space between the membranes (called the pleural cavity or intrapleural space) is filled with a thin, lubricating ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...

Food manufacturer The Compleat Food Group has cut over 100 tonnes of plastic from its supply chain by removing plastic trays from its pork pie packaging. The initiative, which spans both branded and ...

But this time, the urban landscape is different: Modern homes are full of plastic, turning house fires into chemical-laced infernos that burn hotter, faster, and more toxic than their predecessors.

Here we go again with a warning about those black, plastic cooking utensils because they're a major concern. I have various colors that add that splash of whimsy to my kitchen. But mainly ...

Each cavity is driven by a high-power klystron, which is a tube containing electron beams. The electron beams are intensity-modulated to a frequency of 400 MHz, or 400 million oscillations per second.