Lab gloves contaminate microplastics research with stearate salts that mimic plastic signatures, creating false positives ...

A University of Michigan researcher stumbled upon a crucial caveat for every study of microplastics—lab gloves may have ...

Scientists typically use vibrational spectroscopy to analyze samples. They bounce light off a microscopic fragment and ...

It seems like every day a new study finds tiny plastic particles called microplastics where they should not be: in our bodies ...

Scientists at Imperial College London are developing a portable handheld device, dubbed: “Lab-in-a-Bag,” capable of detecting ...

Microplastics scientists are finding the tiny particles everywhere, even in their own research laboratories. So how do they ...

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Scientists at Imperial College London are developing a portable handheld device, dubbed: “Lab-in-a-Bag,” capable of detecting multiple viral and infectious diseases within 30 minutes. Researchers say ...

A string of eight dead and missing scientists is causing concern in the U.S., as some of the disappearances are extremely ...

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Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A University of Michigan study found that common nitrile and ...

Researchers found that plastic gloves can transfer microplastic particles onto environmental samples, potentially skewing ...