Beachcombers along the Texas coast this week may have noticed an unusual find scattered for miles: smooth, white clumps that look a bit like soap, plastic or even chunks of cheese. In reality, it’s ...

Paraffin wax might be washing up on a Texas beach. Staff at the Matagorda Bay Foundation, stewards for Central Texas's estuaries, say material that they believe to be paraffin washed ashore Sunday, as ...

Scientists in Iraq have applied two different kinds of phase-change materials to lower the operating temperatures of PV panels. Their experiment showed that beeswax and paraffin wax are particularly ...