A peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found approximately 240,000 plastic particles in every liter of commercially bottled water, with roughly 90% of ...

Data collected during a rowing challenge around the seas of Great Britain has found significantly higher concentrations of ...

Scientists found microplastics in all examined human brains in a recent study, with highest levels discovered in dementia ...

Up to 11.5 million plastic particles can show up in a single liter of bottled water, at least in a small slice of samples ...

JC Foster’s startup is betting consumers will start caring about what their appliances are made of, not just what they do.

One study showed that chewing a piece of gum for as little as two minutes released microplastics into the mouth. 11 Researchers found that even natural gum had microplastic contamination. So, even if ...

Furthermore, a material engineering approach, such as hydrophobic CeO nanoparticles that attract hydrophobic plastic particles, can aid in effective detection of MPs by selectively targeting MPs like ...

Not all vehicle emissions come from tailpipes. At any given time, 1,100 tons of microplastic is floating over the United States, and much of it comes from vehicle tires, according to a recent Wired ...

Microplastics in water and the environment is one of the hot topics under the general discussion of environmental professionals. These microplastic particles are present everywhere, also in tap water.

Off the coasts of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea swirls an omnipresent yet vanishingly small menace: microplastics. By this point, it comes as no surprise to scientists that they would ...

Since the 2010s, conspiracy theorists have pointed to lab animal studies as “proof” that hormone-disrupting chemicals in water are “feminizing” humans and causing more people to identify as LGBTQ+.

Every day, people are exposed to microplastics from food, water, beverages and air. But it's unclear just how many of these particles accumulate in the human body, and whether they pose health risks.