You get excited about sending your robotic submarine to the very bottom of Mariana's Trench anxious at the rare wonders you'll encounter, perhaps for the first time, and this is what you see miles below the ocean surface.

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Microplastics can get into brain tissue, study shows.

NBC News reports: "The tiny scraps of plastic were found in the olfactory bulb, the part of the brain responsible for processing smell."

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Here's the original study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

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Microplastics in the Olfactory Bulb of the Human Brain

This case series investigates microplastics in the olfactory bulbs of deceased individuals and examines their size, morphology, color, and polymeric composition.

^{Luís Fernando Amato-Lourenço, PhD (JAMA Network)}