I’m about to show you a graph—but before I do, I need to warn you: when I first saw it, it felt like a jump ...

The average brain may contain a spoonful of plastic, a new study suggests. The number of tiny bits of plastic found in human brains increased dramatically between 2016 and 2024, with the highest ...

Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a preprint posted online in May. A preprint is a ...

Scientists uncovered a grim find when collecting samples from a human brain in recent research. The equivalent of an entire standard spoon of plastic shards were found, which could mean that a scary ...

When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much ...

We’re not Barbie girls, but we live in a plastic world. Microplastics, tiny specks of broken-down plastic, are all around us. They hover in the air, float in our water, and are sprinkled in the food ...

You can usually hear the term “brain cell” to refer to neurons, as if they are the only cell type present in the brain. They are not. Neurons can be considered the main cellular unit in our nervous ...

You now know your brain is plastic and can be influenced by many variables. Dr. Michael Merzenich, often called the Father of Modern Neuroplasticity, outlines the necessary conditions needed for your ...