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People with microplastics in their arteries had 4.5 times the heart-attack risk

Patients whose carotid-artery plaques contained polyethylene or polyvinyl chloride faced a 4.53-fold higher risk of heart ...

America Is Plagued by Shoplifting. I Went to the Headquarters of the War on “Shrink.” I Couldn’t Believe What I Saw.

I parked in the lot and marched to the second floor of Innovation Square's Innovate Hub. Lest I get any ideas, I was told ...

Nanoplastics found in Antarctic soils for first time, suggesting long-range atmospheric transport

Microplastic contamination has been a much-discussed topic over the last several years, but contamination from even smaller ...

Tiny magnetic 'flowers' could expand how researchers image spintronic materials under stronger fields

Materials with magnetic nanostructures have a wide range of potential applications. One area is so-called spintronics, with ...
Nature

First ‘true sugar’ molecule found in space — offering hints to life’s origins

Call it an extra-sweet discovery. A group of astronomers has detected a sugar molecule swirling inside a cloud of gas and dust near the centre of our galaxy. They are calling the molecule — a compound ...