If plants can absorb nanoplastics through their roots, scientists worry what these plastic coverings may be doing to our food supply. Photo: Yann Schreiber (Getty) Nothing seems safe from the ...

Supramolecular plastic dissolves in seawater, leaves behind nutrients plants can absorb Artistic rendering of the new plastic. Cross linked salt bridges visible in the plastic outside the seawater ...

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have developed a ground-breaking plastic film that can kill viruses that land on its surface with room light. The self-sterilizing film is the first of ...

However, writing in Nature, Li et al. provide strong evidence supporting the air as being a major route for plastics to enter plants. Plants can absorb plastic particles directly from the air.