Research has detected microplastics in a range of vital body parts, including the heart and brain. Now, researchers break down how these nanoparticles enter the human brain and the potential impact ...

Preserved in formaldehyde, it looked like half a pancake ... of Medicine in Manhattan first stumbled across the neurons in human brain specimens in 1995, in a region toward the front of the ...

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday ...

In 1991, under President George H.W. Bush, the EPA finally deemed formaldehyde a probable human carcinogen and calculated the likelihood of it causing an extremely rare cancer that affects a part ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives.

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve cells connected by synapses. Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve ...

The chemical formaldehyde is found just about everywhere ... This past week, an EPA evaluation said it poses “an unreasonable risk” to human health. A ProPublica investigation found that ...

In 1991, under President George H.W. Bush, the EPA finally deemed formaldehyde a probable human carcinogen and calculated the likelihood of it causing an extremely rare cancer that affects a part ...