Researchers at South Korea’s Kyung Hee University have developed a technique for creating microscopic, randomly-generated wrinkles on the surfaces of plastic particles. Each set of these wrinkles is ...

Guffogg’s team taught computers to differentiate between the “fingerprints” of plastic and sand, with concentrations of plastic then highlighted with colour in images taken by satellites. Plastic ...

We don’t often think of plastics as having “fingerprints.” But they do. And, as we continue to find microparticles in unexpected places — from local anchovy and seabird guts to the deepest trenches of ...

We don’t often think of plastics as having “fingerprints.” But they do. And, as we continue to find microparticles in unexpected places — from local anchovy and seabird guts to the deepest trenches of ...

Microscopic wrinkles squeezed onto the surface of tiny plastic particles could be used to create security keys that are impossible to duplicate. The randomly-generated wrinkles are a lot like our own ...

Who says only humans should have fingerprints? A technique for generating artificial ones could see banknotes, jewellery and other valuables tagged with a unique pattern to fight counterfeiters. Wook ...

Fingerprints found on plastic used to wrap the body of a man whose remains were found in a garden are still being investigated by police, a pre-inquest hearing has been told. The body of John Sabine, ...

A satellite picked up plastic placed on a beach at Shallow Inlet, close to Wilsons Promontory National Park, in Victoria’s Gippsland region. Source: RMIT Looking down at the Earth from space, signs of ...