Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months(today.ucsd.edu)

191 points by geox 2 years ago | 111 comments

Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds(cnn.com)

139 points by gortok 1 year ago | 140 comments

Scientists achieve more than 98% efficiency removing nanoplastics from water(showme.missouri.edu)

28 points by Ozarkian 2 years ago | 11 comments

Neutrinos' maximum possible mass shrinks further(sciencenews.org)

70 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 25 comments

Nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water(news.stanford.edu)

139 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 70 comments

Microplastics in the human brain(smithsonianmag.com)

201 points by headclone 1 year ago | 169 comments

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics(news.umich.edu)

537 points by giuliomagnifico 7 months ago | 242 comments

University of Michigan news release on a study finding nitrile and latex gloves can contaminate samples and cause overestimation of microplastics.

Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics(thedrive.com)

598 points by geox 3 years ago | 487 comments

The Drive news article reporting a study finding that tire dust accounts for the majority of microplastics in the ocean.

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste(rochester.edu)

490 points by speckx 4 months ago | 202 comments

University of Rochester news article about a new desalination method that turns ocean water into drinking water without producing waste brine.

A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease(sciencedaily.com)

21 points by gradus_ad 15 days ago | 2 comments

ScienceDaily news release on Texas A&M research linking a common plastic to fatty liver disease, with unhealthy diets possibly worsening the damage.

Plastics are poisoning us(newyorker.com)

361 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 416 comments

New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert on how plastics release and attract toxic chemicals and spread everywhere, from human placentas to deep ocean trenches.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.