A man went to hospital complaining about weakness in his left leg, and subsequent brain scans revealed a surprising finding.

The human brain may be ... of cells called neurons, the brain is the body's most complicated organ, and also the most important. This massive ball of tissue inside your skull is responsible ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior.

Brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics than other organs. The brain may contain higher -- and more significant -- amounts of microplastics than other organs in the body, according to ...

Enter SynPull, a new synaptosome imaging method developed by David Klenerman, John Danial, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, England. SynPull combines single-molecule pull-down of ...

Time is of the essence for a Brazilian neuroscientist who wants to study whale and dolphin brains before the brains decompose ...

Scientists say microplastics are unavoidable, but can we limit our exposure to these potentially harmful plastic particles?

How much of our brain is normal, and what percentage of it is plastic? Scientists made this alarming discovery that should bother us all. Read on.

Microplastics may cause blockages in blood vessels in the brain and affect behavior, according to a study on mice.

The olfactory nerves run from the inside of the nose, through the skull, and then directly into part of the brain called the ...

it degrades into smaller and smaller bits ‒ eventually small enough to slip inside the human body. Most of the plastics the scientists found in brain, kidney and liver tissue were extremely small, ...

Think a human-sized cupboard, windowless and about the length of an ... But instead of it continuing to get sunnier in my brain, I noticed storm clouds moving in. Now my thoughts were as dark as the ...