Sorry to break the news, Barbie fans, but not everything about plastic is fantastic. 

Driving the news: Per Wired, a study into the release of plastics from food containers has found that microwaving can blast millions of bits of plastic, called microplastics, and even tinier nanoplastics, into your food—and the hotter the conditions, the more plastic leaks in. 

In the world of science, just like in infomercials, if something seems too good to be true, there’s a good chance it is. 

Driving the news: Some scientists are sounding the alarm over fishy details and inconsistencies in research papers published by a South Korean team claiming the discovery of a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor, per Scientific American. 

Space startup Vast has partnered with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch a school bus-sized space station into orbit by 2025, as private companies race to capture low-orbit real estate.

Top travel destinations for 2023: Venice, Maui, Seoul, and… the Moon?

For Ontario’s Jeremy Hansen, the sky is not the limit. NASA is sending him to deep space.

Imagine this: A future where your phone battery is so good that you never have to get through the day on a 10% charge again.

The Chief Science Advisor of Canada wants to get to the bottom of this UFO business.

A new paper in Frontiers in Science details one research group’s case for organoid intelligence—the practice of using tiny clumps of human stem cells to power computers. 

The world’s climate goals are banking on the success of carbon capture technology, and one start-up has just achieved a major breakthrough. 

While you’re using DNA testing services to explore your neanderthal ancestry, the police are using the same data to solve crimes.