Kraken The Code

Plastic pollution is like a global epidemic that, if left unchecked, will continue to do damage.

- Penn De Vera

Unlike organic materials that decompose over time, plastics can stay long after we are all gone. Obviously, biodegradable materials are the way to go, and a group of scientists think they have found the answer in one of the sea’s inhabitants itself—the squid. Squids have complex proteins in their squid ring teeth (SRT), the suction cup cavities that line their tentacles. Abdon Pena-Francesch and Melik Demirel, materials scie