From the time you woke up this morning until the time you go to bed tonight, our country will throw away enough plastic to fill the Dallas Cowboys stadium — the country’s largest football stadium — to ...

Positioned on the sun-facing side of a structure, it consists of a wall made from materials like brick, stone, or concrete, and a glass panel or polycarbonate sheet placed a few centimeters in ...

Generally speaking, the best material for shatter-resistant lenses (since, technically, anything will shatter under enough pressure) is polycarbonate. It's often used in sports glasses ...

Plastic bronchitis is the buildup of lymph fluid in the lungs. The fluid leaks into the airways and causes tree-like casts to form, blocking the airways. Treatment includes removing the casts and ...

Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute. As the environmental impact of that tide of plastic becomes a growing political issue, major packaged goods sellers ...

It’s all around us, despite its adverse effects on the planet. In a 24-hour experiment, one journalist tried to go plastic free. To avoid sitting on plastic, the writer brought a wooden chair to ...

Q: About 15 years ago, we had a company install a prefabricated sunroom with tall windows on three sides, supports made of white polycarbonate and a roof of transparent, fluted polycarbonate.

Polycarbonate is highly resistant plastic to impacts and is very durable. Greenhouses and skylights are sometimes made out of it instead of glass, but what accounts for its strength? Here’s more ...