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

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

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

“From what we know about actual exposure in everyday life, it is not biologically plausible that that mass of plastic would ...

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

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, ...

“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

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

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 ...

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, ...