It might look like a comet or a shooting star, but this time-lapse video is actually a tiny plant root, not much thicker than a human hair, magnified hundreds of times as it grows under the microscope ...

Researchers created a method to track nanoplastic uptake and transport in plants, detecting them in winter wheat roots during lab trials. (Nanowerk News) Microplastics and nanoplastics in soils are a ...