The Northwest Arkansas Community College is offering a new way for bike techs to sharpen their skills and service the over 92 ...

With help from a novel cross-linking molecule, MIT chemists have shown they can substantially improve the ballistic impact ...

A new project, with six researchers from across the University of Nebraska system, aims to answer a simple but urgent ...

Dust surrounds us constantly, yet most people never give it a second thought. We breathe and consume millions of dust particles daily without concern — and for good reason. Our bodies handle normal ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Microplastic particles flowing through Earth’s atmosphere may be quietly driving up global temperatures, a new study suggests. Microplastics and nanoplastics—tiny bits of broken-down plastic pollution ...

There is considerable evidence that microplastics and nanoplastics are present in the livers of humans, and wild animal populations on land and in the ocean. Now experts in environmental and human ...

Labs trying to understand the spread of microplastics have a unique problem: the tiny plastic particles are everywhere. Avoiding contamination of samples and experiments takes a lot of time and effort ...

The Plastic Detox is Netflix’s documentary film that delves into whether lowering daily exposure to microplastics – going on a three-month plastic detox – can improve fertility markers in couples who ...

Five couples with unexplained infertility tried to avoid plastic as much as possible for 12 weeks. Three of them got pregnant after, but this doesn't mean plastics are causing infertility, experts say ...

Contamination analysis is all about detecting unwanted materials on or inside a product, whether visible or microscopic. Even small traces of contamination can compromise performance or, in some cases ...