Recent studies reveal microplastics in human blood and organs, raising health concerns. Explore how these particles enter the ...

The public is starting to understand that they can find microplastics in their food, particularly seafood, but exposure from ...

Model predictions showed a rapid increase in microplastic accumulation and contamination across the penguins' prey organisms resulting in Galapagos penguin showing the highest level of microplastics ...

Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination ...

A study exploring this was published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials and reported in ScienceDirect. Researchers used ...

Strange brown specks in two donated brains set a seasoned neuropathologist on an unexpected path. Elaine Bearer had examined countless samples during her long career, yet these glassy clusters puzzled ...

Microbubbles in the tap water you just poured into a plastic glass are strong enough to create tiny abrasions on the inner ...

Tiny plastic particles may accumulate at higher levels in the human brain than in the kidney and liver, with greater ...

Our bodies benefit from a barrier between our blood and brain that operates as a filtering mechanism that blocks harmful substances in our blood from getting into our brains. But that filter is not ...

Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers ...

Study: Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains. Image Credit: SIVStockStudio/Shutterstock.com A recent Nature Medicine study assessed the relative ...

A Galápagos penguin is perched on the molten rock of the Isabela Islands. The authors captured this photo during a 2021 expedition to collect microplastics in the Galápagos Marine Reserve.