Here, the team built their dynamic duo from two strains of Pseudomonas putida, a Cheetos-shaped bacteria often found in polluted water and soil. One strain had a taste for terephthalic acid, the other ...

Bacteria may be... A volunteer collects plastic ... microbes into two compounds known as terephthalic acid (TPA) and ethylene glycol (EG). Then, the engineered microbes transform TPA and EGA ...

A team of physicists at the University of California at Santa Barbara has discovered some of the dynamics involved with active liquid surfaces at the microscopic level when energy is added. In ...

EO's effectiveness in eliminating bacteria, viruses ... and polyester fibers is driving the consumption of EO-derived ethylene glycol.