Microplastics scientists are finding the tiny particles everywhere, even in their own research laboratories. So how do they ...

"It led to a wild goose chase of trying to figure out where this contamination could possibly have come from." ...

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each ...

It seems like every day a new study finds tiny plastic particles called microplastics where they should not be: in our bodies ...

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A University of Michigan study found that common nitrile and ...

Walk into almost any lab, and you’ll find beakers within arm’s reach. They’re everywhere, and for good reason. But there’s a tendency to treat them as interchangeable, and that’s where things go ...

The tools meant to detect microplastics—lab gloves—might be quietly skewing the results. A new University of Michigan study ...

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation ...