Micro- and nanoplastics are increasingly detected in human tissues, including the brain, and experimental evidence suggests ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a preprint posted online in May. A preprint is a ...

You don’t have to throw away that plastic spatula either.

The average brain may contain a spoonful of plastic, a new study suggests. The number of tiny bits of plastic found in human brains increased dramatically between 2016 and 2024, with the highest ...

It isn’t exactly news that plastic is a problem, but just how quickly that problem is growing may shock you. According to a ...

Plastic is everywhere, including in our brains. According to a preprint in the National Library of Medicine, samples from human brains collected in 2024 contain 50% more plastic than samples collected ...

"There’s much more plastic in our brains than I ever would have imagined," the study's lead author said Getty Researchers have found there's a spoon-sized amount of microplastics in the human brain.

When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much ...

Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight A growing body of scientific evidence shows that microplastics are accumulating in critical human ...

When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much ...