WASHINGTON — Plastic is nearly impossible to avoid. From food containers to grocery bags, it’s everywhere, and new research shows it’s not just around us. It’s inside us. The Plastic Inside Us: How ...

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising treatments that work from the inside out. Instead of relying on scalpels and ...

Stanford scientists have used nanoparticles and an ultrasound 'hat' to generate non-invasive, therapeutic light inside the ...

Tiny surgical robots are learning to make decisions inside the human body, using AI to interpret complex biological environments in real time. Unlike traditional minimally invasive procedures, where ...

The human body may seem like a single, self-contained system, but it actually hosts trillions of microscopic organisms. These microbes live on the skin, in the mouth, and throughout the digestive ...

Microplastics, tiny bits of plastic less than 5 millimeters in size, are now found in our air, food, water, and even inside the human body, according to new research led by scientists from China and ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these ...

Plastic particles enter our bodies through various pathways and distribute into our organs. Researchers are developing a way to track these particles using wearable spectrometry. By using a spectrum ...

Scientists stress plastic pollution is real, but health impacts inside the body remain uncertain Scientists are raising serious doubts about a wave of high-profile studies claiming to have found ...

The Department of Health and Human Services will is introducing a first-of-its-kind program to study microplastics and the effect they have on the human body, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The lactic acid bacterium found in the dish helps bind nanoplastics inside the intestine, allowing them to remain together when exiting through the bowel Getty Stock Images Scientists are sharing ...