New research shows microplastics in food and water. Here’s what parents need to know—and realistic steps to protect your ...

Microplastics have been discovered in glass bottles, ultra-processed foods, rice, table salt, and canned fish. 5 Studies have ...

Microplastics research faces standardization challenges as viral headlines about "plastic in your brain" overshadow ...

Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study. The particles were found in the edible tissue of six different species of fish.

New study: As global plastic production grows, so too does the concentration of microplastics in our bodies. As plastic production grows, so do the microplastics in our brains - Los Angeles Times ...

As plastic breaks down over time, it degrades into smaller and smaller bits ‒ eventually small enough to slip inside the human body. Most of the plastics the scientists found in brain, kidney ...

Spanish researchers have identified different types of plastics in seminal plasma and ovarian follicular fluid ...

Much of that comes from plastic packaging and coatings, as well as miniscule polymers that rub off onto food and into drinks. But while a single stick of gum may be small, the average gum consumer ...

What are microplastics. Over the past two decades, the rate of plastic production has roughly doubled, to more than 400 million metric tons per year, about the weight of 1,200 Empire State ...

Your brain is 99.5% brain tissue — but the rest? Plastic. That’s the unsettling takeaway from a new study co-lead by Matthew Campen, who found microplastics in human brains at far higher ...

In a plastic-obsessed society, reducing exposure is only getting harder. In the past 15 years, the world has produced half of the plastic ever made, and production is still speeding up.

Plastic 2.0. The team, which included researchers from the University of Tokyo and RIKEN, has developed a plastic with seemingly contradictory properties: strong and flexible, yet soluble in seawater.