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Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images   Microplastics are showing up everywhere in the human body, but what does this actually mean for our health? For starters: potentially crumbling our poor skeletons. New research suggests that the inescapable plastic particles could be weakening our bones by hindering their ability to generate new tissue. This, along with other harmful effects on bone health that the researchers found, could be contributing [...]

Boozers beware: a new study has found links between heavy alcohol consumption, brain damage, and earlier death. As the American Academy of Neurology notes, Brazilian researchers established in a new study that heavy drinkers — defined as those who have "eight or more alcoholic drinks per week," so not a particularly gigantic quantity — have a greater risk of developing brain lesions that can cause issues with memory and cognitition. Known as hyaline [...]

"It was abandoned, the forest took over, and the stone blocks were removed." City Scape Archaeologists have begun uncovering a 250-year-old lost city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest — and are using advanced technology to survey it. As Brazil's Metropoles news site reports, University of Sao Paulo archaeologist Eduardo Neves and his team have unveiled their discovery of an abandoned Portuguese colonial settlement during the first of a three-part research program [...]

Tipping Point Large parts of the Amazon’s iconic rainforest are nearing an irreversible "tipping point" and collapse in less than 30 years due to deforestation and climate change, scientists warn in a new paper published in the journal Nature. It's a grim vision of "compounding disturbances": that nearly half the Amazon could by 2050 transform into either scrubby savannah fields, forest with low tree cover and open canopy, or a degraded forest [...]

Ever seen lightning shoot upwards? If not, you're in luck. Last year, researchers in São José dos Campos, Brazil were able to capture the exact moment that several buildings' lightning rods reached out to meet descending lightning bolts in midair. In other words: the lightning rod managed to contain lightning — with lightning. And while the pictures of the event, first published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters back in December, are mesmerizing in [...]

Scientists are reeling from the discovery of "plastic rocks" on a remote volcanic island off of the Brazilian coast — a troubling sign, experts told Reuters, of just how deeply plastic pollution has embedded itself into Earth's geological patterns. The rocks, dubbed "plastiglomerates" — a molten mixture of sediment and debris, held together by melted plastic — have been discovered at a particularly troubling place. "This is new and terrifying [...]

Running Out of Radii A dwarf planet called Quaoar, lurking at the outermost boundaries of the solar system, has astronomers scratching their heads, as the sheer size of its newly discovered ring practically defies explanation. While Quaoar is only about half the size of Pluto, its faint ring system blows the current theorized maximum on ring sizes out of the water, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. Known as the Roche limit, it maintains that the closest an [...]

Another step closer to ending our reliance on a short supply of donor organs. A team of Brazilian researchers have succesfully bioprinted tiny organoids that perform all of the human liver’s functions, Brazilian news service Agência FAPESP reports — functions including building proteins, storing vitamins and secreting bile. The researchers had to cultivate and reprogram human stem cells, and then 3D print them in layers to form tissue. While the [...]