Mark Miodownik

Jan 9, 2025 | theconversation.com | Gemma Ware |Mark Miodownik

Every year, 400 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide, and every year, approximately 57 million tons of plastic pollution is created. And yet in November, the latest round of negotiations on the first legally binding international treaty on plastics pollution ended without an agreement. Oil-producing countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and Russia, refused to sign up to a clause calling for the world to reduce its production of plastics.

Dec 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Mark Miodownik

My children, ages 11 and 13, have never flown. They agree it's best we take trains and boats to vacation at the seaside and in the mountains and it cuts our family's carbon emissions in half. It means we have to turn down invitations to join friends and family in places reachable only by flying.

Aug 5, 2024 | theguardian.com | Mark Miodownik |John Scougall

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Jun 6, 2024 | citylights.com | Mark Miodownik

In this New York Times Notable Book, “Mark Miodownik, a materials scientist, explains the history and science behind things such as paper, glass, chocolate, and concrete with an infectious enthusiasm.”–Scientific American Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science BooksWhy is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does any material look and behave the way it does?

Apr 18, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Mark Miodownik

The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world. Gases are all around us—they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm our atmosphere. Often invisible and sometimes odorless, these ubiquitous substances are also the least understood materials in our world, and always have been.