In A Nutshell Researchers at Tokyo University of Science developed a method to create fluorescent, irregularly shaped ...

Plastic particles smaller than a grain of sand have now been found in human lungs, blood, arterial plaque, and placentas, ...

There are enough nanoplastics in some brains to make a plastic spoon — here are 5 easy ways to reduce your exposure. Plastic is more pervasive than ever before, from the Antarctic tundra to our ...

Rafika explained that this means that microplastics have entered the safest place for humans: the womb. The findings from the collaboration between the Airlangga Faculty of Medicine and the Woonjin ...

Learn more about the growing concern that the current research on microplastics in human bodies may not be fully accurate.

Experts urge caution in interpreting results of a small pilot study finding microplastics in prostate cancer tissue, calling the results provocative but preliminary.

Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...

Every day, humans unknowingly consume the equivalent of a credit card’s worth of plastic particles, accumulating to approximately 50 plastic bags worth of microplastics annually. These microscopic ...

Plastics are not inert. More than 16,000 chemicals are used in plastic production. Many — including phthalates, bisphenols, flame retardants, and PFAS — are associated with cancer, endocrine ...

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