Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic water bottles contain particles that may be dangerous to your health. Here's what to know. (Getty Images) (Westend61 via ...

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Amy Goldstein Photography In January Phoebe Stapleton, ...

A cup of tea rarely feels like a complicated thing. Hot water, dried leaves, a few minutes of steeping, and a habit repeated in kitchens and offices all over the world. But one part of that routine ...

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...

New research reveals that a liter of bottled water contains an average 240,000 microscopic plastic particles. The health impact is unclear.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A paper published Monday used a novel technique to analyze one-liter samples of ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of ...

At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious ...