This University of Pennsylvania lab is working on new ways to detect microplastics

The Trump administration has called microplastics​ a "human health threat." The tiny fragments are found in the air, water, ...

AI is helping these Terps create a biodegradable plastic cling wrap

Scientists at the University of Maryland are using artificial intelligence to create a biodegradable plastic wrap that ...
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This smartwatch could one day detect plastic inside your body

Tiny plastic particles are now being found almost everywhere, including inside the human body. Scientists have detected microplastics and even smaller nanoplastics in the air we breathe, the water we ...
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What happens when you metal detect underwater with crocodiles and a python?

We ventured into dangerous waters for some underwater metal detecting, but what we didn’t expect was to be surrounded by crocodiles and a massive python. This video takes you into the wild, where we ...
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One command to explain your Python environment, trace imports, and detect shadows.

Note: uvx pywho is not recommended — it runs inside uv's ephemeral sandbox, so the output reflects that temporary environment instead of your actual project. Always install pywho into the environment ...
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Machine learning based fraud detection system using Flask, Python, and Scikit-learn with OTP verification and case management.

FraudGuard AI is a machine learning-based web application developed to detect suspicious and fraudulent transactions. The system uses a trained ML model along with rule-based checks to classify ...
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Detecting Market Turning Points with Change Point Detection in Python

Walkthroughs, tutorials, guides, and tips. This story will teach you how to do something new or how to do something better. Change point detection is a helpful tool that spots moments when data, such ...
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I developed an app that uses drone footage to track plastic litter on beaches

Plastic pollution is one of those problems everyone can see, yet few know how to tackle it effectively. I grew up walking the beaches around Tramore in County Waterford, Ireland, where plastic debris ...
IEEE

In-Situ Vision-Based Detection of Non-Cooperative Markers on Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) for Robot End-Effector Positioning

Abstract: Robot end-effector positioning based on non-cooperative marker detection is a key step in achieving automatic drilling of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), for which a vision-based ...
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Jeonbuk National University Researchers Explore Metal Oxide Electrodes as a New Frontier in Electrochemical Microplastic Detection

Researchers highlight the great potential of metal oxide-based electrochemical sensing methods for detecting microplastics in environmental samples JEONBUK-DO, South Korea, Feb. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ ...
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O-PTIR Detection of Plastic Films: Influence of Layer Thickness

In a recent article published in the journal ACS Measurement Science Au, researchers examined the minimum detectable thickness for two widely used plastics, polyamide 6 (PA6) and polyethylene ...