Microplastics may be more dangerous than first thought after a new study demonstrated that the substances were not only dangerous as chemicals but could also produce a hormone-disrupting effect when inhaled. For humans, disruptions to sex hormones can impact the body’s fertility and metabolism, which researchers argue could be behind the recently declining fertility and increasing…

Scientists are one step closer to uncovering the true dangers of plastics and determining the reach of the nanoplastic invasion into the human body after the development of a specialised laboratory at the University of Queensland (UQ). The development is a significant step for scientists striving to determine what regions of the body—including the brain—plastics…