Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been ...

We've all heard about plastic pollution in our oceans, but what about the plastic particles quietly building up inside our bodies? A major European research project called PlasticHeal has taken a deep ...

Micro- and nanoplastics are increasingly detected in human tissues, including the brain, and experimental evidence suggests ...

A team of researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) recently published a study modeling the effect of tiny plastic particles on the human body, with a particular focus on how these ...

Exclusive: The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs ...

Scientists were certain that nanoplastics (synthetic polymers ranging from 1 nm to 1 μm, according to the National ...

The average brain may contain a spoonful of plastic, a new study suggests. The number of tiny bits of plastic found in human brains increased dramatically between 2016 and 2024, with the highest ...

Representative light microscopy images of carbonaceous (black) particles adherent to red blood cells (red arrows) from healthy volunteers. Each image is from a different adult volunteer. Researchers ...

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ ...

Recent studies have reported the discovery of microplastics and nanoplastics in various parts of the human body, arguing that these particles deeply penetrate the human body. However, some scientists ...

The reported releases of microplastics ranged from a few hundred particles to over 8 million particles per liter in a new ...

Do you drink your daily coffee from a takeaway cup? This could result in you ingesting about 363,000microplastic particles a ...