For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...

The flight test was held at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 19, fired from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System.

Microplastics are a growing problem in the oceans. Understanding where microplastics are carried by ocean flows is crucial to learning their fate and impacts. The transport of microplastics is ...

It's impossible to be in the dark about the scourge of microplastics, but new light has been shone on how they end up in the deep sea: underwater avalanches.

Microscopic bits of plastic have been found everywhere in the human body, as well as the remotest ecosystems and deepest oceans. The sources are well known and include plastic water bottles ...

Microplastics are pervasive in our environment and can contaminate our food through kitchen items like old plastic containers, cookware, cutting boards, blenders, and sponges. Switching to ...

Wind and Earth’s spin keep the ocean’s surface currents constantly moving, and those currents are the main reason floating plastic and other debris travel so far. A prime example of this phenomenon is ...

An estimated 22,000,000 micro and nanoplastics are inhaled by ... With the rise of home delivery services, plastic containers are more common than ever, but these containers can easily add ...

But if some of it does end up in the ocean, it will be far less harmful, and possibly even beneficial, compared to current plastic waste. A paper describing the research was published in the ...

Meet the resilient creatures that call the Pacific Garbage Patch home. Discover how they adapt, survive, and even thrive in this massive ocean of plastic waste. ‘I Was Outraged’: GOP Bill Targ ...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a quote widely attributed to Tennessee Williams: “We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” ...

The small study comes as researchers have increasingly been finding small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of mountains to the bottom of the ocean – and even ...