Ohio State University researchers analyzed samples from Lake Erie treatment plants and six bottled water brands, finding most ...

The study, published in Science of The Total Environment, paired scanning electron microscopy with optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy (OPTIR). That combo let the team spot and identify plastic ...

Researchers have analyzed the stepwise hydration of prolinol, a molecule widely used as a catalyst and as a building block in ...

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One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Amy Goldstein Photography In January Phoebe Stapleton, ...

Scientists have found a clever way to trace water as it moves through the atmosphere, using something most of us probably don’t think about: the atoms. These “fingerprints” left behind by water ...

New research shows bottled water can contain more tiny plastic particles than tap water. Scientists explain why everyday ...

Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when exposed to the crushing pressure of the deep sea.

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking ...

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At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than ...