Researchers at the University of New Mexico are raising concern in a new study showing there is the equivalent of a spoonful of plastic in our brains.

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The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...

The brain may contain higher -- and more significant -- amounts of microplastics than other organs in the body, according to ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples ...

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

"I have yet to encounter a single human being who says, 'There's a bunch of plastic in my brain and I'm totally cool with ...

Tired of all the dire political news? How about some dire medical news instead - scientists just discovered your brain is a ...

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

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...