Emergency doctors in the UK have issued a safety warning over water beads, which could be given to children as gifts over Christmas. The brightly coloured soft plastic beads, also known as jelly balls ...

You may remember Perler beads from first or second grade; these small plastic beads are placed into a peg board and then ironed to produce a solid multicolored piece of plastic. Recently ...

Growing concern over the impact of these tiny plastic beads on marine life has convinced the government to act. A full ban on the sale of products containing microbeads will come into force in July.

A new degradable microbead could soon replace plastic exfoliants in skin cleansers. The polymer spheres effectively remove permanent marker and eyeliner on animal skin samples and break down into ...