We should not underestimate the prevalence of microplastics. They are everywhere—in our rivers, our lungs, and even in our ...

Tiny plastic particles aren’t just choking oceans and cities—they’re quietly infiltrating forests too. Scientists discovered ...

The important part to know is that the team, which published its study in Nature Communications in December 2025, used ...

As the federal government takes new measures to address microplastics, a team at Florida Polytechnic University is finding ...

Researchers found that plastic gloves can transfer microplastic particles onto environmental samples, potentially skewing ...

Standard nitrile and latex lab gloves shed hydrocarbons called stearates - particles added by manufacturers to keep gloves ...

Microplastics are everywhere, which makes studying them all the more difficult. Labs are doing all they can to be ...

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each ...

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to remove microplastics and pharmaceuticals from drinking ...

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 ...

"The average person now carries about a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastic in their brain. Not in our oceans or landfills — in our brains." ...