In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a previously unknown form of mixing that occurs when large groups of dense particles ...

Microplastics pose risks that science and monitoring tools aren’t equipped to fully capture, which could produce ...

A large-scale fluid simulation tracking 100,000 particles as they settle through turbulent water has identified a previously ...

Exposure to the contaminants can often begin before birth, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday.

People who drink bottled water may be getting more than just hydration, some researchers claim. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that each ...

New research reveals that some bottled water may contain far more microscopic plastic particles than tap water, raising ...

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Amy Goldstein Photography In January Phoebe Stapleton, ...

Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water, according to a new review of research that calls for urgent regulatory measures to ...

Mia Heller of Virginia said she got the idea after learning that government agencies were not funding filtration programs ...

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...

Scientists studying how tiny particles of plastic affect our everyday lives say that the amount of nanoplastics found in bottled water is between 10 to 100 times higher than researchers had previously ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious ...