A 45-day greenhouse experiment found that polystyrene microplastics and nanoplastics significantly increased ammonium, nitrate, and available phosphorus in tropical soil ...
A ten-month column experiment shows that road ditch soils retain 93 to 99 percent of tyre wear particles from highway ...
A new study estimates disposable coffee cups could shed up to 2.74 × 10¹¹ submicron plastic particles per person daily ...
Laboratory experiments show that UV-aged polystyrene microplastics can reduce toxic hexavalent chromium through two distinct chemical pathways involving persistent free ...
A biochar and calcium oxide nanoparticle composite reduced lead and microplastic toxicity in alfalfa by improving photosynthesis, nitrogen assimilation, and ...
A mouse study finds chronic polystyrene nanoplastic exposure promotes colorectal tumorigenesis by depleting a protective gut bacterium and weakening Th17 ...
A new perspective argues that coordinating European research infrastructures is the key to overcoming fragmentation in micro- and nanoplastic research.
A new review proposes the CLEAN framework—Cut, Lock, Extract, Amend, Network—as a prevention-driven One Health roadmap for managing microplastic pollution ...
A bioinformatic and preliminary experimental study identifies PTGS1, CA1, and SYK as prognostic genes in multiple myeloma and explores, without ...
A new review in Discover Chemical Engineering examines how band-engineered heterostructure photocatalytic micromotors could improve autonomous water remediation while questioning ...
The 48th EMSI conference in Jamshedpur featured 141 deliberations linking environmental mutagens, microplastics and pesticides to human health and sustainable ...
A new mini-review finds that only metal immobilization and hydrocarbon rhizoremediation by cultured consortia have been field-validated, while microplastic remediation ...
A new review synthesizes animal and human evidence suggesting that micro- and nanoplastics may impair oocyte development through several molecular ...
Raman spectroscopy, a technique that reads the molecular fingerprints of a sample by measuring how laser light scatters from its ...
A systematic review finds critical methodological gaps in exposure estimates for microplastics, nanoplastics and oligomers in infant food.
A new article collection in Discover Applied Sciences documents how toxic metals, antibiotics, endocrine disruptors, microplastics, radiation and herbicides are ...
A new narrative review finds fungi can degrade or bind a broad range of chemical food contaminants, but applying mycoremediation ...
A scoping review of 90 studies finds intestinal micro- and nanoplastic research heavily concentrated in Caco-2 in vitro models, polystyrene ...
A Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain isolated from the Adriatic Sea formed biofilms on low-density polyethylene strips and caused measurable weight loss ...
A Swedish study measured microplastics including tyre rubber in highway stormwater at 2.4 to 4200 micrograms per litre during rainfall ...
