Whether microplastics can directly cause human disease is still being researched,” said Wei Min, a chemist at Columbia ...

For decades, scientists believed that plastics were some of the safest materials around. Now it's clear how flawed that view ...

In a review article recently published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for ...

Chemists at Columbia University report that microplastics sitting in plain water generate reactive oxygen species on their ...

Though plastic is usually inert, tiny pieces of it have the potential to react with one of the most pervasive molecules in ...

Microplastics are a major problem we have to tackle, but one Irish teen has invented a biodegradable plastic that destroys ambient microplastics.

In past research, microplastics have been shown to cause inflammation, oxidative stress and decreased mitochondrial activity.

Plastics are supposed to be chemically inert. It's the reason they're used so frequently to package food, bottle water and ...

Scientists have linked the particles to health risks but did not know how they were causing that harm. A new study offers an ...

Everyday medical equipment is shedding micro- and nanoplastics into patients, bypassing their bodies’ natural filters and ...

Plastic is usually inert, but in a new lab study, microplastics in water spontaneously produced damaging free radicals. What ...

Microplastics are any piece of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters. Over the years, scientists have increasingly raised the ...