Bottled Water May Pose Serious Long-Term Health Risks
A scientist’s island epiphany uncovers how single-use bottles shed micro- and nanoplastics that infiltrate the body, with emerging…
Scientists study how nanoplastics transfer across generations
You can’t see nanoplastics with the naked eye, but they’re everywhere – including your body. Tinier than the…
UNM researcher develops new model for characterizing different forms of vascular dementia
Vascular dementia – cognitive impairment caused by disease in the brain’s small blood vessels – is a widespread…
Researchers create groundbreaking new device to capture lurking threat in our waterways — here’s how it works
As microplastics and their smaller, even more insidious counterparts, nanoplastics, have increasingly permeated the environment and our bodies,…
Fish biology inspires a novel microplastic laundry filter
Sitting around their office late one night, Pennington, Miller, and Dillman began brainstorming things that perform filtering functions naturally.…