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Solutions
Can probiotics bind microplastics?
What in vitro and animal studies actually show, and why strain matters more than genus
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How we evaluate scientific evidence
In an emerging field, certainty can be overstated. Here is how we read the evidence, and where it still leaves room for future work.
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Coffee and microplastics: Where they come from and how to reduce exposure
Coffee itself is not the issue. The plastic touching it may be. A science-based look at microplastics in coffee, from paper cups to pods, and how to reduce exposure.
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Microplastics Are Everywhere
What That Actually Means
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Introducing version 2 of the microplastic exposure calculator
A more comprehensive version of the tool, built to capture more of the exposure routes and environments that shape everyday microplastic burden
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Plastic in bile: what the research is finding
The overlooked stream where your body meets what it ingests
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Exposure
Microplastic exposure is not the same everywhere
A country level model of how waste systems, water infrastructure, and measurement constraints shape relative exposure
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Inside Winnow Atlas
Microplastics research is growing quickly. The problem is not just volume. It is navigation.
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Do microplastics age you faster?
What the “zombie cell” research is starting to suggest
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Exposure
Introducing the microplastic exposure calculator
A first version for making everyday microplastic exposure more relatable
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Testing for 200+ contaminants
Why we do it
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From private concern to public health
Why yesterday’s microplastics announcements matter, and why stronger tools may be the clearest sign yet that this problem is being taken seriously at scale
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