King Vulture Chick. Photo Source: Bronx Zoo

King Vulture Puppet‑Rearing: Bronx Zoo Revives 40‑Year‑Old Conservation Technique

A fuzzy white king vulture chick hatched at the Bronx Zoo on February 25, 2025, is getting an unusual start to life. Zoo staff are raising this rare chick with a specially designed puppet that mimics an adult king vulture, helping prevent the young bird from forming inappropriate attachments to humans. This marks the first king vulture hatched at the Bronx Zoo since the 1990s, ending a nearly 30‑year gap in the

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Plastic Recycling. Photo Source: Fraunhofer.

German Scientists Convert 5.6M Tons Plastic Waste Into 99.8% Pure 3D Printing Filaments

In German laboratories, plastic bottle caps that once held your morning milk are being reborn as precision-engineered components through an innovative recycling process that converts post-consumer packaging waste into high-purity 3D printing filaments. Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in Germany after being used just once.

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