Jeremy Yatvin

Degradable Polymers: Plastics our Future Can Depend On

Consumer plastics is an immense industry, with over 200 million tons produced annually. Of these plastics, 22-43% end up in a landfill, where they sit, inert, slowly breaking down into small particles that enter the environment and interfere in the life cycles of many animals, especially aquatic creatures like fish and zooplankton. This negatively impacts

athenssciencecafe March 22, 2016

UV Defender: The Protective Power of Sunscreen

It's a familiar scene from childhood: you rush outside your house in the summer, or you bravely singe your feet walking across hot sand at the beach, and as you run off, your mother calls you back. She needs to put sunscreen on you. She pulls out a brightly colored tube whose back is covered

athenssciencecafe September 3, 2015

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