A contraption that skims litter from water has been put to the test in a city's river to check for microplastics. The seabin ...

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists ...

Microplastics have become a global threat that has the potential to disrupt human health on a massive scale. Scientists make ...

Microplastics pose a threat to heart health, causing harmful changes in vascular cells and increasing the risk of ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...

Scientists tracked tiny pieces of microplastics as they moved through the brain blood vessels of mice. Some of them became ...

Monash researchers have developed a novel AI program to assist scientists in the global fight against the scourge of ...

"Since RDMPs (road dust microplastics) can become airborne and be inhaled, they may contribute to respiratory inflammation, ...

Microplastics are everywhere, including your home. Thankfully, there are things you can do to minimize your microplastic ...

Seafood is not only tasty and simple to cook but also healthy. But how much should we eat? And what about mercury, ...

A pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) methodology has been specifically developed for the ...

A new study found microplastics in the liver and kidneys of 52 people who had died – but the brain had the highest proportion of microplastics of all organs studied. The amount of tiny shards of ...