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

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

A study has detected up to 30 times more of these elements in brain samples than in those from other organs such as the liver or kidneys ...

The olfactory nerves run from the inside of the nose, through the skull, and then directly into part of the brain called the ...

A December report by PlasticList found that Stanford beans, chicken, rice and cauliflower contain above-average amounts of ...

Global population, now at 8.1 billion, has intensified human activities, significantly contributing to pollution across land, ...

Humans can go for a month or more without ... Studies more properly estimate that one person will ingest 0.000000184 grams of plastic daily. For perspective, a single grain of salt weighs 60,000 ...

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the blood-brain barrier.

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...