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

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

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

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

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, ...

Hunger exists on a spectrum. On the one end is food insecurity, where people are forced to adjust to fewer meals. As food becomes scarce, the body consumes its own reserves. The journey from hunger to ...

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, ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy ...