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Plastic has become ubiquitous in our environment. It's now considered "a crisis of global proportion," according to as United Nations' committee.

Bright Future In a bid to quickly halt the foreboding march of global warming, scientists are exploring the use of aerosols, or tiny particles, in the atmosphere to dim the sunlight that's making our planet pretty toasty. It's an approach filled with uncertainty, but there may be a silver lining in using nature's greatest source […]

To study tiny "ghost particles" known as neutrinos, scientists with Fermilab's DUNE project will beam them from Illinois to caverns in South Dakota.

Toxic algae blooms have plagued popular beaches and rivers in the past. Over the last several years, toxic algae in Lady Bird Lake has made the water unsafe and has been responsible for the deaths of several dogs. NASA's newest mission could make it easier to track similar blooms in our oceans, helping explain the ocean's health in a warming world.

Earlier this week, a disturbing study found that a one-liter water bottle contains around a million "nanoplastic" particles. They're so small — measured on a scale down to a billionth of a meter — that they can enter human cells, a possibility that has alarmed scientists. These tiny compounds, which are significantly smaller than microplastics, […]

If you're eating protein, you could be ingesting hundreds of tiny pieces of plastic each year, research finds. A new study by researchers with the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto found microplastics - tiny particles ranging from one micrometer (one thousandth of a millimeter) to half a centimeter in size - in nearly 90 percent of protein food samples tested.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post...

In 2022, John Clauser won the Nobel Prize for proving what Einstein thought was impossible and what can sound too weird to believe, but it’s true.

"Even then, it never fully disappears; it just gets smaller and smaller."

NASA recently got a detailed accounting of what’s in our air. They found tiny particles of metals, most of which are in the form of sulfates.

Microplastics are seemingly inescapable, polluting everything from the remotest parts of the planet to the bloodstreams of living organisms, including ourselves. That already comes with some pretty worrying environmental and health concerns that scientists continue to explore, but new research indicates that the proliferation of these particles could have an even wilder consequence: changing the […]