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While MPs have already been detected in human reproductive systems, the study, published in the Journal of the Endocrine ...

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As state regulators weigh PFAS rules, scientists push for solutions that fit existing water systems by exploring new ...

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How did ultra-processed foods become a delivery system for plastic fragments now embedding themselves in the human brain?

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Their invention, a mobile tool for cleaning microscopic pieces of plastic from rivers and lakes, comes as scientists have found those same particles stuck deep in human arteries, which raised fears of ...

Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in their quest to solve our microplastic problem. In a study published in the ...