Before glue came in neat sticks, it was a sticky affair. Bottled glue often spilled, clumped, or glued more fingers than ...

The artist’s latest exhibition, Sitting on the fence – on view at Starch in Singapore – exudes a scrappy and DIY energy ...

Before you eat cornstarch raw, you should know it provides little nutrition and may cause digestive issues. It’s best to eat ...

If you saw a plastic bag floating on the wind it might stir up dreamy thoughts of the much-parodied scene from the 1999 film American Beauty. But as the bag flutters, swoops and then wraps itself ...

The global biodegradable agricultural films market is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing adoption of ...

Chirality, a property where structures have a distinct left- or right-handedness, allows natural semiconductors to move ...

It’s a simple experiment wash, strain, dry. But beneath it lies a world of food science and chemistry: how we isolate one ...

A common soil fungus (Purpureocillium lilacinum BA1S), when combined with calcium and mild alkalinity, speeds up the ...

In between washes, Foad suggests using a dry shampoo containing ingredients like rice starch or kaolin clay can absorb ...

Polymer synthesis, also called polymerization, is the process by which monomers (small molecules) are covalently bonded to form a (usually long) polymer chain or network. Linear carbon (Cn), an ...

Nutrition usually makes a small but potentially valuable contribution to successful performance in elite athletes, and dietary supplements can make a minor contribution to this nutrition programme.

The development of advanced materials for food packaging is a rapidly evolving field, propelled by the rising demand for more sustainable and safer food ...