Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to ...

They found that the concentrations of particles in kidney and liver samples were comparable, with an average of 433 ...

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the ...

As plastic breaks down over time, it degrades into smaller and smaller bits ‒ eventually small enough to slip inside the human body. Most of the plastics the scientists found in brain ...

Microplastics are everywhere. Now, a new study says the average human brain may contain a spoonful of plastic.

Scientists found plastic particles in nearly all seafood samples. Smaller species like shrimp had more contamination.

"They're at a much larger concentration in the body than many of us would have expected," he said. Researchers think the growing amount of plastic humans are exposed to could be behind the increase ...

Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years.

Finding plastic deposits in the brain does not prove ... are key to the strength and performance of the brain’s cells. Since the human body can’t produce essential fatty acids on its own ...

Tiny microplastics are making their way into the human brain, and new research suggests the problem is getting worse.