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 ...

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.

It’s 8.45am on a Thursday at Fran’s Cafe in east London, and customers are tucking into the stream of beans, eggs, sausage, bacon and toast that flows from the open kitchen in varying ...

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.

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 ...

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.

A Chinese man carried a spoon in his intestine for months, thinking he’d only dreamt swallowing it while drunk in Thailand.

Wendy's logo on the side of piece of plastic removed from lung after two years. Sept. 18, 2009— -- John Manley complained of fatigue, coughing fits and pneumonia spells and now, after two ...

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

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A plastic spoon's worth of plastic is inside your brain, researchers warned on Tuesday, showing alarming new evidence about microplastic accumulation in human brain tissue. Published in the ...

Your brain is 99.5% brain tissue — but the rest? Plastic. That’s the unsettling takeaway from a new study co-lead by Matthew Campen, who found microplastics in human brains at far higher ...