Artist Rafał Zajko taps into ever-shifting understandings of nostalgia in "The Spin Off" at London's Focal Point Gallery.

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) recently discovered that chewing gum releases microplastics ...

Chewing gum can secrete tiny plastic particles into saliva and bloodstreams, scientists in the US and China say, pointing to the latest source of microplastics in the human body.  In a paper presented ...

Like any mother, I would gladly contract every plague known to nature if it would spare my children pain. But my subject here ...