Detecting microplastics and identifying plant stress at an early stage—this and much more can now be done thanks to a new ...

Litter near the Charles River. For 10 to 15 days, Nelia Gross, a PhD candidate studying materials science and engineering, and other researchers incubated several types of microplastics with E. coli, ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

Microplastics appear to be present in filtered solutions used for medical intravenous infusions, with about 7,500 particles/L ...

HHS, a $1.6 trillion agency, includes the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

As we celebrate World Water Day 2025, we reaffirm our dedication to sustainability and the preservation of vital freshwater ...

Generations of Americans have grown up using chewing gum, but a new pilot study claims that both synthetic and natural gum ...

A research group led by Prof. DANG Fei from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ...

The microscopic shards of plastic found in every corner of the planet may be exacerbating antibiotic resistance, a new study has found.

Ever since Austrian scientists first began looking for them in people in 2018, microplastics have turned up in the blood, ...

In terms of our major sources of exposure, he said that microplastics are like “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in that they ...