Every second, without you knowing it, thousands of billions of invisible particles pass through your body. These cosmic objects travel across the Universe from distant sources, moving at prodigious ...

Tiny plastic particles are a big problem. Experts and scientists gathered for a conference that was hosted by Moms Clean Air Force to discuss plastics. We've known about microplastics and their impact ...

Plastic and microplastic pollution has become a defining environmental concern of our time; headlines warn that these invisible particles might be infiltrating our food and drink. But how much of this ...

Invisible particles in the air are not just irritating our lungs, they are quietly rewiring the immune system that is supposed to protect us. A growing body of research suggests that long before ...

From left to right, Evelyn Tang, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Sibani Lisa Biswal, the William M. McCardell Professor in Chemical Engineering at Rice University. If you’ve ever ...

Chinese researchers who developed a new method to measure airborne microplastic pollution found more than they expected. The researchers captured, verified and measured particles as small as 200 ...