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 much ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...

Scientists uncovered a grim find when collecting samples from a human brain in recent research. The equivalent of an entire standard spoon of plastic shards were found, which could mean that a scary ...

Brain plasticity — also called neuroplasticity — is an odd term for most people, with the word “plastic” causing images of Tupperware or Saran Wrap to pop into your head. However, brain plasticity is ...

We’re not Barbie girls, but we live in a plastic world. Microplastics, tiny specks of broken-down plastic, are all around us. They hover in the air, float in our water, and are sprinkled in the food ...

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Microplastics have now been found in the human brain, accumulating over time to about a spoonful and potentially more, ...