female doctor and student looking at and pointing at a brain made of plastic

Good Job we Don’t Use All of our Brain – 0.5% of it May be Plastic

Anyone that has played 5-a-side on 3G pitch will know only too well how it feels to get home and tip up their trainer, only to see countless small bits of plastic fall out onto the floor. Now scientists believe that as much as 0.5% of our brain may be made up of microplastics, with