With the holiday season in full swing, gifts of all shapes and sizes are being shipped around the world. But all that packaging generates lots of waste, including cardboard boxes and plastic-based ...

That doesn’t make the effort futile. It places it in context. Bio-based foams represent one strategy among many: redesign packaging, reduce unnecessary cushioning, regulate the worst offenders, and ...

A bartender pours a draft beer in a bar in Brest, western France - Copyright AFP/File FRED TANNEAU A bartender pours a draft beer in a bar in Brest, western France ...

3D-printed plastic columns embedded in an ordinary foam forms a hybrid “super foam” that can absorb up to 10 times more energy than standard padding. Aerospace engineering and materials science ...

Bioengineers report that a foaming liquid worked better than a standard liquid formulation at transferring gene therapy components to cells in laboratory studies. Foam mixed with medications is ...

Liquid foams fascinate toddlers singing in a bubble bath. Physicists, too, have an interest in their acoustical properties. Borrowing from both porous material and foam science, Juliette Pierre from ...

Ken Nosaka receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and Defence Science and Technology. He is affiliated with the Stay Sharp Program (not-for-profit group in a community ...

Foam glass represents an advanced material derived from molten glass that has been expanded to form a highly porous structure. This material offers a unique combination of excellent thermal insulation ...