[Photo: courtesy Morrama] That at-home tests are made of single-use plastic isn’t all that surprising. When they were first authorized by the Food and Drug Administration in November 2020, the goal ...

GLASGOW, Scotland: The highly transmissible Omicron variant has led to renewed interest in home testing kits. The UK is getting through millions of these tests each week, while US president Joe Biden ...

A pregnancy test made from 99 per cent paper promises to help cut down the plastic waste left by the 12.5 million discarded each year in the UK. The Hoopsy test is designed to be cut in half after its ...

A five-day experiment had just one rule: Do not use any disposable plastic waste. The campaign, undertaken by an Asahi Shimbun reporter, was aimed at exploring what individual Japanese citizens can do ...

Ariana Grande put an end to all plastic surgery rumors while taking a lie detector test. Grande’s Wicked costar Cynthia Erivo asked the singer burning questions about what work she’s had while ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco was the first city in the nation to get rid of single use plastic bags in 2007. In 2014, the rest of the state would also ban the so-called urban tumbleweed.

Picture a pregnancy test, and chances are that some version of the following image will pop up: a clinical plastic stick, possibly with a pink handle and the words “pregnant” and “not pregnant” ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Since May, the Trump administration has paid a fledgling ...

Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely. The prototype is made by a Danish company from an extra-strong paper shell that still ...