From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world built for giants.

Rather than being a source, the ocean appears to be a sink, in which 15 percent of all airborne microplastics are deposited.

Researchers offer advice about new evidence showing the human brain has ... though one small study suggests sweating might facilitate the removal of certain plastic-derived compounds like ...

Plastic pollution has long been a concern in oceans, rivers, and soil, but a new study reveals its presence in an unexpected place – the lungs of birds. Tiny plastic particles ... not just on wildlife ...

The auction house which was under investigation is understood to be Small and Whitfield ... They didn't have plastic skeletons in those days." Asked why people purchased human bones now, Mr ...

The adult human brain ... Where Is All the Plastic?” by British marine biologist Richard Thompson. He and others had found that small colorful fragments of common plastics were extremely ...

In a significant move in the AI world, California-based Figure has revealed Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned ...

It's also a mystery as to how long the fragments stick around for. Some studies on clogged arteries in human patients have found tiny fragments of plastic accumulating in more than 50 percent of ...

Ali Nazari, a graduate of natural sciences, said that plastic waste broke down into tiny particles over time and releases harmful chemicals that can enter the food chain and threaten the health of ...

Mice carrying a gene variant present in nearly every human on Earth — but not in extinct relatives including Neanderthals — produce more-complex chirps than normal rodents do 1. The finding ...

A rhinoplasty, commonly referred to as a nose job, involves an operation either performed from inside the nostrils — a closed rhinoplasty — or by making a small cut on the nose. By breaking ...

A new study from the University of New Mexico found that plastic in the brain has increased by about 50% over the past eight years. The accumulation, roughly equivalent to the size of a standard ...