Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

BSI has updated its standards for the detection of microplastics in drinking water to help protect human health and larger natural ecosystems.

LCGC International provides separation science insights, including liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography (GC), and ...

Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensitive than a dog’s nose can pick up their traces ...

In this interview, AZoMaterials speaks with an expert from Malvern Panalytical, a company at the forefront of light scattering innovation, to explore the technique's current landscape and future ...

Microplastics research faces standardization challenges as viral headlines about "plastic in your brain" overshadow ...

Marine ecosystems are significantly threatened by plastic litter, hence, effective detection and monitoring techniques are necessary. The identification and classification of ocean plastic litter is ...

An unpublished conference abstract presented at the ESHRE 41 st Annual Meeting in Paris looks at microplastics in human reproductive fluids. Prof Oliver Jones, Professor of Chemistry, RMIT University, ...

Aiming at the problem that traditional surface detection is easily affected by complex industrial environments and cannot extract effective features, a deep learning-based knowledge distillation ...

Four Trinity researchers have secured awards worth a combined total of €2.57 million under Research Ireland’s Pathway funding ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their secondary pollutants pose significant risks to both the environment and human health. In response to air pollution control policies, the emissions of ...

Microplastics are polymer fragments that can range from less than 0.2 inch (5 millimeters) down to 1/25,000th of an inch (1 micrometer). Anything smaller is a nanoplastic that must be measured in ...