Scientists have found plastic fragments can shed off cutting boards, takeout containers and even laminated paper cups with ...

A new study published in Nature Medicine has revealed the presence of microplastics – tiny fragments of degraded plastic – in ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains ... researchers as they extracted microplastics from tissue and analyzed them.

In a laboratory at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, in Palisades, New York, Debra Lee Magadini positions a slide under a microscope and flicks on an ultraviolet light.