Nanoplastics appeared in more than half of the Antarctic topsoil sites tested, and some were also found deeper underground.

What if the Higgs boson found in 2012 is not alone but is the only sibling we have encountered so far? Scientists at CERN discovered the particle that year, and it was a major discovery because it ...

There's no escaping the need to knead your bread dough, but take a second to consider your countertop before you do. You ...

Animals and electronic devices aren't the only things with memory. Materials can retain memories of past deformations in their microscopic structure. A common example is a crease in a sheet of paper ...

Debates over the presence of microplastics in the human body highlight the challenge of studying something simultaneously invisible to the naked eye and abundant.

Funding crisis could lead to an exodus that would be a blow for British science and national growth ...

A small new study adds to the evidence that microplastics can accumulate in the body and are tied to higher levels of ...

Smoke from wildfires — which are burning more of the Northern Hemisphere as Earth warms — attacks nearly every system in the ...

The orange haze hanging over your house is, indeed, bad. But the chemistry of wildfire smoke doesn’t have to be visible to be ...

Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that ...

Exosome skincare is trending, but does it actually work? Dermatologists explain the science, benefits, risks and FDA status.

Intensity-Dependent Memory Erasure: Under low rocking amplitudes, directional memory remains intact. As rocking intensity ...