Microplastics are building up in human brains, blood, reproductive organs, and more. A new study suggests you ingest more ...

If you enjoy a refreshing stick of gum now and then, you may be biting off more than you should chew. A recent pilot study found that chewing gum ... it — come out in very tiny amounts ...

The authors were surprised to find that chewing natural gums didn’t really make a difference. The average number of microplastics in 1 gram of synthetic gum was 104, and in natural gum it was 96.

Chewing gum, says the latest research, can actually be good for you. Scientists at the University of Northumbria havefound that people's ability to remember lists of w ords improved by more than a ...

Through deployed soldiers, more and more people were exposed to gum as a commodity item. “That’s really one of the reasons chewing gum spread around the world. [In the modern era], it really ...

Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing ... very small ones (the nanoplastics), not the much larger microplastics that were found in the saliva of the gum ...

it seems far fewer Brits really know what really goes into their favourite minty sticks. Chewing gum was previously made from the chewy sap of the Sapodilla tree, also known as chicle ...

Chewing a single piece of gum can release ... 600-odd micrometer-sized pieces of plastic per piece of gum "is a very small amount indeed", commented chemist professor Oliver Jones of the Royal ...

Not to burst your bubble, but your gum might be packed with plastic. A new study found that chewing a single piece ... “The environment plays a very important role in our health,” he said.