Medical experts say spoon was precariously lodged, with even minor movements posing a risk of intestinal perforation or ...

A Chinese man unknowingly harbored a 15cm coffee spoon in his duodenum for six months after a drunken incident in Thailand ...

A Chinese man unknowingly carried a 15-centimetre ceramic spoon in his duodenum for six months after a boozy night in ...

These small feathers on top of birds’ wings lay flat during normal flight but flare up in turbulence during landing. By attaching flexible plastic strips – “covert flaps” ...

It’s probably a good idea to ditch your black plastic utensils, since they may expose you to harmful chemicals. Here’s what to use instead.

In the most extreme case, the researchers estimated the brain was 0.48% plastic, meaning the particles added up to a couple of grams — the weight of a typical plastic spoon.

As plastic breaks down over time, it degrades into smaller and smaller bits ‒ eventually small enough to slip inside the human body. Most of the plastics the scientists found in brain, kidney ...

By 2024, the average brain studied by scientists at the University of New Mexico contained the equivalent of one plastic throw-away spoon, about 7 grams worth, said Dr. Matthew Campen, a ...

Ontario: A plastic spoon’s worth of plastic is inside your brain, researchers warned on Tuesday, showing alarming new ...

Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery. You probably don’t have quite that much of the stuff in your brain, but the idea of any plastic piling up there is still unnerving.

Nearly a year after McDonald’s ditched the hollow plastic spoon, more changes are coming for the McFlurry. Beginning September 10, the chain is eliminating the plastic, dome-shaped lid and ...

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