Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been ...

Microplastics are everywhere. We drink them in our water, we eat them in our food, we breathe them in our air, leading to – ...

"The brain microplastic paper is a joke." The post Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human ...

“From what we know about actual exposure in everyday life, it is not biologically plausible that that mass of plastic would ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

Expelling toxic “forever chemicals” from the body may take guts — or at least, their microbes. Some microbes found in the human gut can absorb some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, ...

Some people say that today there are almost no "blank spots" left on our planet - that is, places completely unexplored by humans. And therefore, supposedly, life today has become more boring than, ...

"Size matters" sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle.

“‘It’s the perfect kind of gray warfare.” This was how one researcher summed up the new generation of weapons that have the ...