Microplastics are everywhere—from the ocean to our bloodstream—raising urgent questions about their impact on human health.

Microplastics have made their way into just about everything. Our blood, our snow, our oceans, and our soil all have it.

Researchers from Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), part of Wageningen University & Research, have developed a method ...

Researchers discovered that roughly 90% of the microplastics were fibers, with three primary types of plastic present: ...

To address that demand, they created a sponge-like substance called Ct-Cel biomass foam that combines two substances found in ...

When it comes to pollution, car tires are the culprits you never saw coming. As they twist and turn on the road, they leave ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics — incredibly tiny bits of plastic that break off and shed from larger products — have made ...

There are multiple ways to extract microplastics for analysis, mostly using density separation. I tried a technique called ...

Findings indicate microplastics in blood are linked to inflammation and coagulation markers, underscoring the need for ...

Microplastics have turned up in all corners of our anatomy. So much remains unknown about how these particles work their way through our bodies, and what that means for our health.