New analysis reveals why studies finding high microplastic levels in human bodies may be fundamentally flawed due to testing ...

Over the past year, scientists have searched brain tissue, arteries and even joints for the presence of microplastics. The tiny particles, they have found, are ubiquitous in the human body - littering ...

Some 10% of people shy away from medical attention because they have a severe fear of needles, and nobody likes getting poked. So what would life be like if needles were as thin as a hair? Or how ...

Numerous studies have found evidence of microplastics in the human body and warned of the risks to our health. But in the race to research this new field scientists may have drastically overstated the ...

Faced with exploding global demand for protein and the growing environmental impact of animal farming, insects are emerging ...

AI is lowering barriers to CBRN threats—but with coordinated public-private partnerships, the same technologies can become ...

To gain more knowledge about how ultra-processed food affects us, we need new research methods, claim researchers. Now they ...

Explore why tau still lacks treatments despite its critical role in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies.

Billions of cigarette butts end up on sidewalks, beaches, and gutters each year. They are small, easy to ignore, and hard to ...

For how long can the Earth support complex life before entering an irreversible zone from an environmental perspective?

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers ...