Most foam cups and containers are not technically Styrofoam, but are made of polystyrene foam according to Melissa Valliant, communications director for Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit organization ...

The project hinges on leveraging Styrofoam’s natural ability to generate static electricity. RMIT’s team has developed patches of polystyrene—the same material found in Styrofoam—that ...

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If you’re looking for maximum support from your pillow, memory foam is one of your best bets. Originally designed by NASA for aircraft cushions, memory foam is made mostly from a type of plastic ...

Arduino is a popular open-source development board used by engineers, hobbyists, and makers to develop electronic projects and prototypes easily.

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...