Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

In 2017, a study out of King's College in London hypothesized that, over time, the cumulative effect of ingesting plastic could be toxic. Different types of plastic have varying toxic properties.

After we inhale these particles, they can travel through the body and end up in various organs. Studies have found MNPs in human lungs, placentas, blood vessels, and bone marrow.. A 2024 study ...

Synthetic Human Genome Project aims to develop methods allowing scientists to not only read an entire DNA molecule but also ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that ...

This plastic contains thousands of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals that can leach out of the plastic at every stage. And because plastic does not break down in the environment and less than 10 ...

Inspired by nature, scientists created a self-powered device that recognizes color just like our eyes, paving the way for ...

Christopher Davis has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of killing Barry Schmalbach, who has been ...

A plastic called polypropylene is often used to make tea bags, and even if you choose paper tea bags, there can still be microplastics in them. The issue is that when the bags contact hot water ...

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to numerous ethical concerns. While the ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...