Study of mothers in Seattle underscores ‘widespread, systemic problem’ of chemical contamination, experts say ...

More than 70% of microplastics found in samples from oceans and rivers could come from the scientists collecting them. A new article investigates procedural contamination when sampling for ...

The study used stool samples from five healthy volunteers to grow ex vivo gut microbiome cultures. These cultures were then exposed to five common microplastic types—polystyrene, polypropylene, ...

Nearly 50 years have passed since NASA collected samples of the Moon during the Apollo missions of the late 1960s and 1970s. Now, the government space agency has finally chosen to study them, with the ...

Doctors usually want to run tests on blood samples as quickly as possible, before they start to degrade. As it turns out, such a practice may not be necessary. Scientists conducting experiments with a ...