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Optimized method extracts soil nanoplastics while preserving particle integrity

The Invisible Plastic Beneath Our Feet: Scientists Unearth Soil’s Nanoplastics — and Reveal How Much Slips Through the Net Soil may be one of the planet’s great hidden reservoirs o...

Plastic isn’t just surrounding us anymore. Scientists are finding tiny pieces of it inside us.

Microplastics have been reported in human blood and numerous tissues, adding an unsettling new dimension to the world’s plastic pollution problem. Researchers are now trying to ans...

Cobalt/graphene carbon beads clear antibiotic pollutant from water without metal leaching

Researchers at Hebei University of Technology, Nankai University, and the Oil & Gas Technology Research Institute of Huabei Oilfield Company have developed a millimeter-scale,...

Nanoparticles could help reduce mental decline, mouse study says

Engineered nanoparticles crossed the blood-brain barrier in mice, reprogrammed support cells into neurons, and improved learning and memory in Alzheimer's models.

Carbon nanomaterials help plant roots accelerate polyethylene breakdown in soil

Carbon nanotubes and graphene oxide help alfalfa roots and soil microbes degrade polyethylene, increasing plastic mass loss while revealing distinct surface and deeper-soil effects...

Microplastics React With Water, a New Study Says. That’s a Problem for Biology

Though plastic is usually inert, tiny pieces of it have the potential to react with one of the most pervasive molecules in the environment and in our bodies.

Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own

Its effect on people remains an ongoing question.

AI-Assisted Sensing Enables Plastic-Free Microplastic Detection

Scientists in Brazil have built and validated a compact, open-source imaging device that uses artificial intelligence to detect and measure microplastic particles in water, offerin...

Russian scientists create Arctic microplastics' first digital passport

By using it, neural networks will be able to distinguish with an accuracy of more than 96% polyethylene from polypropylene right in the ocean, and environmentalists will have an ac...

Microplastics may produce harmful molecules if they enter our blood

In a lab experiment, microplastics generated harmful molecules when exposed to blood, which may damage cells

New Protocol Reveals Millions of Microplastic Clues Hidden in Greenhouse Soils

Beneath the sea of plastic greenhouses that blankets Almería in southern Spain, the soil is quietly accumulating something far smaller than the vast polyethylene sheets that cover...

Microplastics Are Chemically Active, and Could Cause Biological Harm

A new study found that when microplastics contact water, their surfaces can become chemically reactive. This could be how they get us sick.

Microplastics are linked to inflammation—scientists might have finally worked out why

Microplastics interact with water to create highly reactive molecules, a new study finds

New research shows how microplastics and water interactions could lead to cell damage

LOS ANGELES — Scientists have found microplastics in virtually every part of the human body. Yet many questions remain about what exactly these infinitesimal flecks of synthetic po...

Modern miracle? Plastic waste transformed into effective fertilizer

Plastic is one of humanity’s most useful, flexible, and inexpensive inventions. Inexpensive, that is, until you remember the massive environmental and health costs of...

New research shows how microplastics and water interactions could lead to cell damage

When water comes into contact with plastic surfaces, a key chemical reaction does take place, new research indicates.

How microplastics may weaken the human immune system

Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive signs of the industrial age, turning up in the deepest ocean trenches, on alpine peaks, in the food we eat and the air we breath...

New toolbox analyzes microplastic-tissue interactions in two freshwater benthic organisms

A New Microscopy Toolbox Reveals How Microplastics Meet the Guts of Freshwater Animals Tiny plastic particles may be accumulating in the mud beneath rivers and lakes, but scientist...

Method for quantification of microplastic release from plastic-based materials during weathering

You are the science news desk of a major English-language science magazine. Complete the task immediately. Never ask the reader what to do, never offer editing options, and never r...

Nanocrystals Could Enable Flexible Electronics 

What if materials used in LEDs and implants could be made into nanocrystals? University of Chicago researchers have developed a method to produce them. Researchers at the Universit...

Waste plastics transformed into sponges that harvest water even from dry air

Researchers converted discarded plastics into reusable water-harvesting materials that absorb moisture even in dry conditions and release it with mild heating, potentially using su...

AgCl Nanoparticles from Dual Extracts: Bioactivity, Ecotoxicity, Molecular Mechanisms

Garlic and sweet flag, two plants with centuries of use in traditional medicine, have now been fused into a single nanoparticle platform that kills bacteria, neutralizes oxidative...

What are Microplastics and Why Should You Take Notice?

Plastics are in the news a lot lately. From the elimination of single use plastics to curtailing plastics pollution society seems to be taking plastics management seriously. But wh...

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