microplastics
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Tech innovations and Startups
The first filter that blocks 99.9% of microplastics in water
The DGIST research team has developed a porous polymer with photothermal properties that can absorb and remove phenolic microplastics and…
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Environment
The study that will show the real extent of microplastic pollution
The crew of SEA Plastics is unique: every year on this ship a group of scientists leave for an expedition…
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Environment
New parasites transported by microplastics from the land into the ocean
A new study revealed that microplastics can hook up pathogens from land and transported them into the ocean, where they…
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Environment
Microplastics in the lungs, found for 1 time in living people
Research from the University of Hull, UK, used spectroscopy to detect tiny plastic fragments. Present in almost all analyzed samples.…
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