According to a new study, it might be more than just melted ice or leftover pulp. Researchers from the University of Birmingham tested 155 samples of popular beverages sold in UK supermarkets and ...

It's become common to read that microplastics—little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser—are turning up everywhere and in everything, including the ocean, farmland, food and human bodies.

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Bosons are particles that carry energy and forces throughout the universe. The standard model of particle physics — the most robust theory we have of the sub-atomic world — divides every particle in ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...

Particles similar to axions, the leading candidate for dark matter that has long eluded detection, may have already been ...

Neutrinos are some of the most mysterious particles in nature, capable of passing through the Earth like it wasn't there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. Their mathematical models show that dark matter could have ...

Lightning is a staple of West Michigan weather, but many natives might not know how this common phenomenon is made.

Astrophysicist David McComas is leading a new SpaceX mission to the point between Earth and the sun, where scientists hope to study the boundary of the heliosphere.