In September 2024, these miniature pollutants were also discovered in the human olfactory bulb, a type of brain tissue that sits above the nose in the forebrain. At the time, researchers weren’t ...

Of course they’ve made their way into human tissue, he says. Earlier studies have found them in lungs, intestines, blood, liver and placenta. In the samples collected in 2024, concentrations of ...

A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver ... Inhalation through the nose to what’s called the olfactory bulb, the part of the brain that ...

Here is a far-from-exhaustive list of some possibly relevant antecedents to Friday’s crash regarding why aircraft can nose-dive ... conditions,” the human brain is easily tricked into ...

Although the human brain is capable of sifting through a billion bits of information per second, scientists recently found that the top speed of human thought only comes in at roughly 10 bits per ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

The pea-size spot near the tip of his nose seemed so innocuous Ben Murray thought it might have been numb for a while and he simply hadn’t noticed. In March 2020, Murray, a videographer and ...

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Ja ...