took the opportunity to shed light on the matter by examining cheese slices under the microscope. The Australia-based creator took cheese slices wrapped in plastic, as is done by commercial ...

Levels of microplastics in the brain have shot up 50% in just eight years, according to samples tested by researchers in New ...

“Nanoscale plastics can breach the blood-brain barrier, [but] how [microplastics] cause brain functional irregularities remains unclear,” wrote the study’s authors.

And then there’s the plastic waste we can’t see: microplastics, whittled by sun, wind, and waves into bits so small that some are visible only under a microscope. Scientists are just beginning ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish ... Debra Lee Magadini positions a slide under a microscope and flicks on an ultraviolet light. Scrutinizing the liquefied digestive ...