Microplastics are often named as a major polluter of both the planet and our bodies, but what does the actual science say?

For years, scientists suspected that waves breaking on plastic-littered seas were a major source of the tiny fragments now ...

Many people choose bottled water believing it is cleaner and safer than tap water. But new research suggests that this ...

A team of researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) recently published a study modeling the effect of tiny plastic particles on the human body, with a particular focus on how these ...

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 ...

Sources and exposure pathways to micro nano plastic particles in terrestrial ecosystem agriculture. The accumulation and poor management of plastic fibers and particles remains a pressing global issue ...

When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much ...

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 ...

Tiny plastic particles are everywhere - both in nature and the human body. "Microplastics are pervasive in the food we eat, ...

Researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about plastic pollution.