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LONDON,ENGLAND - March 2025: In this photo illustration, fragments of plastic on fingers England. (Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images) While we live in the Plastics Age, and it may no longer be a ...

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Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we ...

A generalizable technique has been developed to create diverse functional inorganic membranes on the surface of various aqueous solutions. The technique ensures that the air–liquid interface receives ...

Clouds form when water vapor – an invisible gas in the atmosphere – sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, ...

There may be far more microplastics floating in the world's oceans than previously estimated, a team of scientists has suggested. The researchers estimate that the oceans could be home to as many as ...

Tiny microplastic particles floating through city air stick to spiderwebs, giving researchers a natural way to capture and monitor this form of pollution. Trending New Scientist articles ...