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

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

Claims that microplastics are widespread throughout the human body are now being questioned. Microplastics are real — but ...

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden ...

A 2024 study by the French NGO Agir pour l’Environnement found that repeatedly opening and closing plastic soda bottles significantly increased the number of microplastic particles in the beverages.

Scientists have discovered that wildfires release far more air-polluting gases than previously estimated. Many of these ...

Earth has been struck by its strongest solar radiation storm in over 20 years, triggering rare aurorae far from the poles and ...

Researchers have created tiny, microorganism-inspired particles that can change their shape and self-propel, much like living things, in response to electrical fields.

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The sky abounds with aerosols, tiny particles with large sway over Earth’s temperature. A new NASA visualization reveals how these airborne particles swirl through the atmosphere. The agency’s Goddard ...

NASA has completed a series of scientific balloon flights over Antarctica during a campaign that began in early December.