What you don't see (but is) in every piece of chewing gum. UCLA study expands the invisible map of microplastics in our daily lives. While science continues to investigate their possible long-term ...

Researchers at UCLA found that chewing gum – even gum labeled "natural" – can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into saliva and potentially be ingested.

Chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Chewing gum's base ingredient is synthetic rubber, which is a type of plastic. A stick of gum is ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Chewing gum's base ingredient is synthetic rubber, which is a type of plastic. A stick of gum is ...

More than 250,000 microplastics (MPs) were detected in the saliva of a person after one hour of chewing a single piece of gum, a new study has revealed. The research findings, led by Queen’s ...

With a lack of ancient human bone excavations in the region, finding human DNA within this piece of chewed-up birch bark was ...

In one 2019 study of over 3,000 U.S. teens and adults, 62 percent reported munching on gum over the past six months; and on average, they chewed about one piece per day. Gum chewing can affect ...

Unlike chewing food, which breaks down into smaller pieces that can be easily swallowed, gum chewing is continuous and falls ...

Mueller's $10,000 bid Monday ended a frenzied two-week online auction for not one, but two pieces of game-used gum chewed by Arizona Diamondbacks slugger Luis Gonzalez.Since word of the auction ...

Efforts to tackle the problem of chewing gum stuck to pavements in two West Yorkshire towns have been boosted with the award ...