They've been found in our lungs, brains and arteries - and until now, nobody could measure how much is inside us.

We can't remove what we can't measure - and that's exactly the problem a $144 million program is built to solve.

Silicone, glass or stainless steel — none of it matters if we can’t measure what’s already inside the human body.

Microplastics have shown up in some surprisingly unexpected places. They're abundant in our waterways, in our fish, in sodas, and even in glass water bottles. They've also been detected floating in ...

Microplastics in the air are contributing to climate change.

(CNN) — Scientists have detected microplastics — the tiny and pervasive fragments now found in our seas, drinking water, food and, increasingly, living tissue — in human semen and follicular fluid, ...

TL;DR: Microplastics have been found in human brain tissue, with recent samples showing a 50% increase compared to older ones. Microplastics are becoming more and more of a concern as researchers are ...

Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms for expelling foreign ...