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Microplastics are turning up in unusual places increasingly often as they filter into nearly every facet of life on Earth. They’ve been discovered in drinking water, food, air and even in blood. Now, scientists have found that these incredibly small bits of plastic might even be able to change the weather.

We’ve compiled a list of 10 kids’ books to read this month, for both the younger and older readers in your life.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope detected quartz crystals made of silica, a common Earth mineral, in the atmosphere of a hot exoplanet.

A trio of US-based researchers on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing tiny "quantum dots" used to illuminate TVs and lamps, hours after a prematurely sent statement revealed their names.The chemistry award is the third Nobel of the season after the medicine prize and the physics prizes were announced earlier in the week.

Three scientists, including a professor at Cambridge’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots.

Plastic Clouds A team of researchers in Japan has discovered microplastics inside rain clouds, indicating that the tiny particles are contaminating nearly every part of nature, from the things we eat and drink to the air we breathe. The team sampled water from mists shrouding the peaks of Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama, identifying nine […]

Air pollution, especially its tiniest particles, has contributed to a 30% global rise in heart-related disabilities and death since 1990, a new study has found. The pollution connection affected men more than women, while poorer regions of the world were hit harder that wealthier areas, researchers said in the study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The most ...

Air pollution, especially its tiniest particles, has contributed to a 30% global rise in heart-related disabilities and death since 1990, a new study has found. The pollution connection affected men more than women, while poorer regions of the world were hit harder that wealthier areas, researchers said in the study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The most ...

The fight against single-use plastics has been going on for decades.

Workers making the most popular type of countertop sold in the United States are at risk for potentially deadly lung disease, a new study finds.