The reported releases of microplastics ranged from a few hundred particles to over 8 million particles per liter in a new ...

You probably think your home-cooked meals are healthier than takeout, right? Fresh ingredients, your own clean kitchen, ...

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that have made their way into our food, water, and even the air we breathe. Research has shown that consuming high levels of microplastics can have harmful ...

A research team led by the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna has investigated a possible link between ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

Researchers in Germany and Australia have created a simple but powerful tool to detect nanoplastics—tiny, invisible particles that can slip through skin and even the blood-brain barrier. Using an ...

Over the last 20 years, scientists have come to recognize microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) as a growing form of ...

How did ultra-processed foods become a delivery system for plastic fragments now embedding themselves in the human brain?

According to a new study, microplastics in the air in Xi'an city, China, more than tripled during the time period of their ...

Chinese scientists have detected plastic particle clouds hovering in the air over two large cities indicating that these ...

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 ...

A new study estimates that adults inhale up to 68,000 microplastic particles per day inside homes and cars, with most particles small enough to reach deep into the lungs. (Image by Nadiia Yakovenko, ...