Eating plastic, it’s fantastic! Scientists might have found an unlikely solution to the trash problem choking our planet — a plastic-eating insect, which was described in the journal Nature. The ...

Tiny insects may someday be enlisted to break down plastic in landfills. — -- Since plastic was invented, figuring out how to get rid of the stuff quickly without harming the environment has been ...

Insects rank high among humankind’s go-to creatures for strangeness: Think movie monster inspirations or extreme biophysics (SN: 11/7/22). So of course scientists have already started testing insect ...