Detecting microplastics and identifying plant stress at an early stage -- this and much more can now be done thanks to a new method based on near-infrared light measurements. It is inexpensive and ...

Campen's brain study found that there are more traces of plastic in our brains than in our livers and kidneys. It turns out that plastics are attracted to fatty tissue. Campen says he doesn't do much ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Microplastics have been found in numerous organ systems and even in the human brain. It's impossible to avoid them altogether, but you can cut back, researchers say.

A pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) methodology has been specifically developed for the identification and quantification of seven polymers commonly found in tap water. The ...

A 2024 study found that boiling water can quickly and effectively rid home drinking supplies of microplastics. Researchers found that boiling and filtering tap water could reduce the presence of ...

Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from the sun into the fruit and ...