A series of headline-grabbing studies in the last few years have claimed to have found microplastics throughout human bodies ...

Microplastics are no longer a distant environmental issue—they are part of daily life. These microscopic plastic particles have been found in drinking water, food, household dust, and even human blood ...

Interoception is how your brain senses and responds to what’s going on inside your body. “It’s how we know when we’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, or even need to take a deep breath,” says Wen G. Chen, ...