But we know we are exposed to plastics in everyday life—and that's what we wanted to examine here." A woman is about to chew gum in this stock image ... counting them under a microscope ...

To assess the spit samples, the plastic particles were either stained red and counted under a microscope or analyzed using infrared spectroscopy, a technique that identifies and characterizes ...

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

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 ... nanoplastics form. They discovered that the process begins in the soft ...

Business Waste used the latest studies to create shocking images that illustrate how high levels of microplastic exposure can negatively affect the human body — including your appearance.

The company’s chatbot can now create elaborate and unusual images. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Chatbots were originally designed to chat. But they can generate images, too.

UK waste management service Business Waste used AI to create images showing the long-term effects of microplastics exposure on the human body, publishing their findings on March 28.

But who will use it? OpenAI has released a new image generator that’s designed less for typical surrealist AI art and more for highly controllable and practical creation of visuals—a sign that ...