Previous research links tiny plastic particles to a range of adverse health conditions but largely stops short of ...

A research team led by the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna has investigated a possible link between ...

When inhaled at moderate levels, plastic particles without dangerous additives appear to be able to disrupt sex hormones, according to a new study published by researchers at Rutgers University.

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

A new study used a pioneering technique to deliver endocrine-disrupting aerosolized micro-nano-plastics to female lab rats. Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also ...

DAVIS, Calif. — We’re all inadvertently dining on tens of thousands of plastic particles annually. Now, researchers have figured out what all that plastic might be doing inside your body. A new study ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

Silicone’s composition gives it a synthetic polymer structure with a silicon-oxygen backbone, making it more resistant to ...

Bottled water contains up to 100 times more tiny pieces of plastic than was previously estimated, scientists said. The average liter of bottled water contains around 240,000 detectable plastic ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of ...

Over the last 20 years, scientists have come to recognize microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) as a growing form of ...

In a Nutshell Male mice exposed to microplastics before conception produced female offspring with insulin resistance on a ...