For years, headlines have warned that our blood, brains, and even unborn children are riddled with microscopic plastic. Now a ...
Scientists were certain that nanoplastics (synthetic polymers ranging from 1 nm to 1 μm, according to the National ...
The project, which aims to reintegrate highly weather-stressed waste plastics into the circular economy, has been running for ...
To track the course of inhaled microplastics and their even smaller counterparts, nanoplastics, the study authors constructed a detailed computer model of the human respiratory system from the nose to ...
Most bodies of water contain minute plastic particles that get trapped at the surface when ice forms. But when the ice melts, the microplastics have changed. According to research published in ACS’ ...
Paramecium and certain other microbes move through liquid by whipping back and forth hairlike appendages known as cilia. Scientists have now developed a new type of synthetic cilia, which could find ...
Protein‐polymer conjugates represent a dynamic class of hybrid materials that combine the inherent biological function and specificity of proteins with the versatile properties of synthetic polymers.