A contraption that skims litter from water has been put to the test in a city's river to check for microplastics. The seabin ...

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists ...

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

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

Study by US scientists, published in the journal Nature Medicine, also found that dementia patients had up to 10 times as ...

Microplastics are everywhere, including your home. Thankfully, there are things you can do to minimize your microplastic ...

Scientists tracked tiny pieces of microplastics as they moved through the brain blood vessels of mice. Some of them became ...

A pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) methodology has been specifically developed for the ...

The emergence of microplastics across the planet is leading to new health challenges. Jack Board and Liling Tan discuss some ...

Monash researchers have developed a novel AI program to assist scientists in the global fight against the scourge of ...

Past studies show that microplastics and nanoplastics can be harmful to human health. A new study has found that humans tend ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...