SAN DIEGO, March 25, 2025 — Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life, such as cutting boards, clothes and cleaning sponges, can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic ...

Not to burst your bubble, but your gum might be packed with plastic. A new study found that chewing a single piece releases hundreds — if not thousands — of microplastics into your saliva, which ...

“I swallowed gum for many years; I must be a bionic woman by now.” A horror-struck woman, alias u/BlinksyBoo, wrote in a Reddit post after reading a report published by researchers from the University ...