A high school student in Virginia has built a filtration system that removes more than 95 percent of microplastics from drinking water. Her approach uses a magnetic liquid, ferrofluid, to pull tiny ...

Taking inspiration from anchovies and herrings, researchers have made a new filter that could keep microplastics from entering waterways and oceans. The filter, with a design based on the gill systems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ongoing, fish-inspired research from Germany's University of Bonn could soon make our washing machines more planet-friendly.

The newly approved project “Development of a biomimetic prototype to reduce microplastics emissions” (SuspensionFlow) has the aim of developing an innovative prototype for a microplastic filter for ...