Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...

Now a startup called Stardust seeks something more ambitious: developing proprietary geoengineering technology that would ...

Plastics revolutionized medicine. But what we once saw as miraculous has now become a silent threat—one we can no longer ...

How tiny plastic particles enter the atmosphere is an important question, as airborne microplastics are a potential health threat. Using a global chemical transport model, researchers have provided ...

A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the ...

When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that ...

While the investigators found microplastics in various organs, the microplastics were usually detected at higher levels in ...

Microplastics are floating in the air around us, surging through rivers and streams and burrowing deep into soils. And now, a ...

Fragranced products and cooking generate harmful nanoscale pollutants indoors, posing potential health risks. Purdue ...

While toilet bowls are designed such that the contents are supposed to flush downward, scientists have known for decades that small particles – including those from water, waste and toilet paper ...