New research shows that microplastics have been contaminating some freshwater streams decades earlier than previously ...

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

Brain tissue from 2016 was compared to samples from 2024. It was in the range of five times higher. The rate of accumulation mirrors the increasing amount of plastic waste on the planet.

Microplastics have been under the microscope lately ... found a plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards in human brain tissue. That sounds bad, but exactly how bad is it?

Recent research has confirmed that nanoplastics can cross cellular barriers, including the blood-brain barrier (a highly selective, semi-permeable membrane that protects the brain from harmful ...