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Worried about the harmful microplastics in your water? You just need to boil and strain it before consumption
Scientists find boiling tap water, then filtering it, removes up to 90% of microplastics, offering …
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Plastic testes: Scientists analyse human testicles, find microplastics in every single one of them!
Eat right, exercise, get adequate sleep, manage your stress, avoid smoking and limit alcohol — thes…
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An expert in how microplastics affect our health does 6 things to avoid them at home
Professor Fay Couceiro leads a team that researches the potential health impacts of microplastics. …
Serafina Kenny
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Microplastics have been found in human testicles. Now what?
New research suggests microplastics have crossed a unique blood barrier in human testicles. An expe…
Hilary Brueck
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Food packaging chemicals are seeping into human bodies — here's what that means for your health
Food containers and cookware are leaching more potentially hazardous chemicals into our bodies than…
Gabby Landsverk
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Microplastics are clogging your arteries — and possibly increasing your risk of heart disease
Worryingly, those with plastic in their plaques are 4.5 times more likely to experience a heart att…
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All Indian salt and sugar brands have microplastics, notes a recent study
The highest levels of microplastics were found in iodised salt, in the form of multi-coloured thin …
PTI
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Microplastics found in penis muscle for the first time. It could be linked to erectile dysfunction.
Scientists are suspicious that there might be a connection between fewer erections and more plastic…
Hilary Brueck
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Microplastics have been linked to a higher risk of heart attacks and stroke for the first time
This is the first time microplastics have been linked to health problems in humans, following decad…
Kim Schewitz
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Microplastics discovered in human blood are 'unsettling.' Scientists are trying to figure out whether they're harmful.
Scientists say they're in the dark on the health impacts of microplastics circulating the human bod…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Yes, you're consuming microplastics — here's how much, and what we do (and don't) know about the risk to human health
Humans ingest about a credit card's worth of microplastics by some estimates. Scientists are trying…
Andrea Michelson
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Recycling doesn't keep plastic out of our stomachs, lungs, or blood, experts say
"I expect in the end, we are all exposed," said Marja Lamoree, a chemist at Vrije Universiteit behi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Microplastics from food packaging and used bottles found deep in the lungs of living people for the first time
Scientists have found tiny plastic particles in human blood and poop before. Now, they've discovere…
Andrea Michelson
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Here's how much plastic people end up eating everyday
According to WWF, an average person eats 100,000 microplastics in a year. ‘We are drinking…
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We are eating, drinking and breathing microplastics — and don’t know how it would affect us
As many as two billion people are affected due to drinking water contamination and a mil…
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An 18-year old has found a way to use 'magnetic liquid' invented by NASA to remove harmful microplastics from water
Ferreira said the most unique part of his mixture is that it can be used to remove plastic from was…