By understanding the microbes that help large beetle larvae digest polystyrene, scientists hope to find a better disposal process for packing foam.

Candy Medusa Plastic Killer sent me this article about how Vehicle tyres are probably the biggest source of plastic pollution in our rivers and seas!? They are also a big part of what they're finding in those spider webs!

Dirty Snowballs from space!

Learn what comets are and how they inform us about the early solar system, in this video adapted from NASA. Comets, which are made of frozen gases, ice, dust, and rock, are typically in a deep freeze in the outer solar system. But when a comet nears the Sun, it loses streams of gases and forms a coma (a thin, temporary atmosphere at its head) and a tail. Dr. Paul Chodas, a research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains that comets—unlike planets, which have undergone significant processing—contain original materials from when the solar system formed and can inform us about the conditions of the early solar system. This video is available in both English and Spanish audio, along with corresponding closed captions. This resource is part of the NASA Planetary Sciences Collection.

Researchers have used a widespread species of blue-green algae to power a microprocessor continuously for a year -- and counting -- using nothing but ambient light and water. Their system has potential as a reliable and renewable way to power small devices.

Comet Interceptor is getting ready to nab passing comets!

Jakarta...a city of 10 million people...is moving to Borneo...how wild is that!? But what's even more shocking is the reason why...Jakarta is sinking!

So one of my favourite sites on the Interwebs is Instructables...you can learn step-by-step how to build the most amazing things! Well, I've just discovered that they have a whole section dedicated to contests for inventors of any age...not sure how to start? There's a lot of projects to inspire you!

Plastics take FOREVER to break down in nature...so the idea of styrofoam munching superworms is quite exciting for cleaning up our cheap packing materials, no?

The sporting world is splitting into a mess of incompatible rules

Charlotte's Web would be 1/10 microplastics!? It makes perfect sense, but I didn't consider how spider webs trap pollutants like heavy metals and magnetic particles...well we're setting these webs on fire, analysing the resultes and discovering pesky microplastics...big time!