Microplastics have become a serious problem for pollution, but now scientists worry about the potential health effects too.

“Nanoscale plastics can breach the blood-brain barrier, [but] how [microplastics] cause brain functional irregularities ...

E ver since Austrian scientists first began looking for them in people in 2018, microplastics have turned up in the blood, ...

Real-time imaging shows how plastic-stuffed cells form clumps that affect mouse movement.

Microplastics and nanoplastics are everywhere—from oceans and rivers to the food we eat and the air we breathe. In this video ...

A team of environmental biologists at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, working with one colleague from Duke University, and another from National University of Singapore, has ...

Plastic is everywhere, from synthetic clothing to take-out food containers. Now we know it’s also in our bodies. Coming up at ...

Scientists conducting a study on mice found that introducing microplastics into mouse bodies resulted in microplastics ending ...

Microplastics are now a widespread environmental threat, present in oceans, rivers, soil, air, and even in the food and water ...

Microplastics may cause blockages in blood vessels in the brain and affect behavior, according to a study on mice.

Convenient plastic products like water bottles and food containers break down over time into tiny pieces less than 5 ...

It’s the year 2025 and, by now, it is abundantly clear that we have a major plastic problem–garbage patches in the ocean, ...