When you order something online, it’s oftentimes delivered in a box. To keep your goodies from jostling around inside of that box, the packaging will often contain some sort of padded filler. One ...

Zimoun is a master of manipulation. Give the Swiss artist the most basic of materials—cotton balls, crinkled paper, cardboard boxes—and he’ll somehow transform them into a mesmerizing soundscape. In ...

This schematic depicts a process for converting waste packing peanuts into high-performance carbon electrodes for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that outperform conventional graphite electrodes, ...

When a new lab was recently being set up at Purdue University in Indiana, a lot of the equipment arrived in boxes full of protective packing "peanuts." Unfortunately, few facilities exist for ...

Hate buying some new gadget, only to wind up with a sea of packing peanuts that do little more than spill on to the floor? Don't be too quick to toss them out -- they may be the key to a new ...

An unusual challenge begins with a massive pile of packing peanuts stacked layer after layer. The goal is simple in ...

Opening a package only to have your apartment flooded with packing peanuts is an annoying experience – and a total waste of plastic. But researchers Vilas Pol and Vinodkumar Etacheri at Purdue ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have shown how to convert waste packing peanuts into high-performance carbon electrodes for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that outperform conventional graphite ...

Packing peanuts make shipping fragile objects easy. But the puffy particles become a wasteful nuisance once the shipment is complete. Now researchers report a method to turn them into something useful ...

People are eating biodegradable packing peanuts under the assumption that they are edible — much to experts’ dismay. On ...