The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic ...

Fish also suffer harmful effects from eating microplastics. Microplastics can damage their intestines, gills, and brain among ...

Research reveals rising levels of microplastics in human brains, prompting concerns about their impact on health.

Microplastics have been found everywhere in the human body, including blood, breast milk, testicles, heart tissue, lung ...

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost ...

Computers have been helping us for a long time. One of the earliest examples is the calculator. It does math for us so we don’t have to do tedious long division and carrying the one and all ...

Scientists recently investigated what happens when human immune cells are exposed to the microplastics found in cigarette ...

Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years. Researchers found plastic fragments as small as 200 nanometers, possibly ...

Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study. The ...

But emerging contaminants and localized pollution exist A year ago in January 2024, I reported the first of the results from ...

Scientists found microplastics in all 52 examined human brains. Newer brain samples had more plastic than older ones.

A reusable sponge that soaks up pollutants like phosphate and metals from water has been developed by Northwestern University researchers ...