Microplastics are everywhere, including your home. Thankfully, there are things you can do to minimize your microplastic ...

Here's what toxicologists recommend. Microplastics, defined as tiny plastic pieces less than five millimeters in size, are everywhere these days — from your food containers to your water bottle and ...

As useful as the material may be, it isn't the safest material for our kitchen items, as use risks harmful microplastics making their way into our food. A recent study found more microplastics in ...

While it might be impossible to avoid microplastics entirely, experts shared several practical steps you can take to reduce ...

Are you damaging your heart by eating food that comes in plastic packaging? According to Italian researchers, you very well could be.

Microplastics pose a threat to heart health, causing harmful changes in vascular cells and increasing the risk of ...

Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study. The ...

This suggests that “food might be a higher-value source” for reducing your exposure to microplastics. Dr. Woodruff says. Another factor is that everyday cooking can lead to upticks in the release of ...

When Joshua Khorsandi moved to Las Vegas last year to start at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, he noticed many ...

Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount appears to be increasing over time.

People diagnosed with dementia have up to 10 times more microplastics present in their brains than those without the ...

Born in Alabama, educated in the U.S. and in Europe, Martin lives in Alabama and in Prague. Fluent in German, he is at work on a history of the East German secret police for Alfred A. Knopf ...