(Nanowerk News) A collaboration of British and Iranian physicists has created an armada of self-propelled polystyrene balls about as wide as a strand of your hair. Their efforts are moving toward self ...

The hollow spheres are 40 to 70 percent lighter than solid ones.” The process starts with polystyrene balls which are lifted up and held by an air current over a fluidized bed while a suspension ...

A woman says her life has been made "miserable" after a carrier bag's worth of polystyrene balls flooded her house every day for 10 months. Michelle Grace, who works for a domestic abuse charity, says ...

Council chiefs have told a Bristol woman they would investigate why nothing was done for almost a year - after she complained that potentially hazardous tiny polystyrene balls were being blown into ...

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Thousands of polystyrene balls find their way into Michelle Grace's kitchen every day, blocking appliances Thousands of potentially hazardous polystyrene balls have been leaking into a tenant's house ...

SOMETIMES a copy can surpass the original. Imitation atoms made of microscopic polystyrene spheres have bonded with each other using the same three-dimensional geometries found in real molecules.

Thousands of potentially hazardous polystyrene balls have been leaking into a tenant's house and garden in Bristol "every single day". Michelle lives in a council property in Bedminster and urged the ...