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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Since 2006, guns have been used in an average of 25 mass killings per ...

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

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

What does a comet have to do to stop looking like a smudge and start looking like a machine? Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ...

A new study enhances hydrogen molecule predictions, achieving unprecedented precision in testing fundamental physics and ...

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