Plastic pollution represents a global environmental challenge, and once in the environment, plastic can fragment into smaller ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere: in rivers and oceans, in the air and the mountains, even in our blood and vital organs. Most ...

Thousands of microplastics so small they can penetrate deep into the lungs are in the air you breathe in your home and car, a new study has found. The particles are likely the result of the ...

Whether as the protons and neutrons that help form chemical elements, the photons that we perceive as light or even the flows ...

In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt.