A recent study found the brain has significantly higher levels of microplastics than other organs. Here is what you should ...

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 ...

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 find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about plastic pollution.

There is not a single living organism on this planet that is meant to ingest plastic ... is primarily plastic. There is no known medical procedure to remove plastic from the human body.

It seems as if humans have become the organic detritus within a plastic world of our own creation. But despite growing awareness around the problems associated with plastic, there is a fundamental ...

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 ...