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    Turkish teen won Scientific American's Science in Action Prize! 28 June 2013

    Turkish teen won Scientific American's Science in Action Prize Elif Bilgin's idea of using banana peels as a alternative for old-school petroleum-based plastics. The 16-year-old student from Istanbul spent two years perfecting a way to make a bioplastic out of...

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