Most plastics used today – roughly 75% – are made of semicrystalline polymers. These materials have a layered structure that ...

The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus—just the ...

The findings explain how most common plastics shed nanoscopic pieces into the environment – not just when they’re burned or crushed, but slowly and quietly, just by sitting out in the open.

The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus -- just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA. Researchers find them ...

Micro- and nanoplastics are contaminating all ecosystems ... By observing these materials under an electron microscope, researchers found that the flexible layers gradually deteriorate under the ...

If you look at a piece of plastic through a powerful microscope, you’ll see alternating ... plastic into the environment, it creates micro- and nanoplastics that look like they are going to ...

Microplastics are tiny fragments of plastic less than 5 millimeters in diameter, some a fraction of the width of a strand of ...

The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus — just the right size to disrupt ...

It is in our bloodstream, in our lungs, in our liver – pretty much anywhere you look in the human body, you will find ...