Change Your Mind with New Scientist — Microplastics - Are Tiny Plastics Harming Our Brains?

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Microplastics - Are Tiny Plastics Harming Our Brains?

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Microplastics can be found everywhere from freshly falling Antarctic snow to the bottom of the Mariana Trench and our brains are no exception. In this episode of Change Your Mind with New Scientist, Health Journalists Cat de Lange and Helen Thomson trace the origins of microplastics and nanoplastics to tell the story…

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