Health risks

Microplastics are in water, soil, air, and just about everywhere around us. Now experts have also detected microplastics in human bodies, the bloodstream of most humans, heart muscles, lungs, and even in placentas and feces of babies. Eating and...

A person’s risk of death over the next five years can be predicted with a smartphone fitness tracker using accelerometer sensors that capture fitness data, according to new research conducted by a team at the University of Illinois at...