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ek slash special offer. Happy Monday listeners for science quickly this is Rachel

Feltman here to give you your weekly news roundup. I hope you're staying

cool if it's finally summer wherever you're listening from, but if you need a little help

with that, you'll definitely want to tune it again on Wednesday. But for now let's kick off the week by diving

into some of the stories you may have missed.

Last Wednesday, scientists published a small study with some pretty big implications. They found microplastics in four out of the five penis

tissue samples that they studied. And yeah, five is a pretty small sample size. Like I said, this was a tiny study, but four to five, we don't love those

odds even at that scale. Plus, this comes just a few weeks after a different study detected

microplastics in human and dog testicles. They tested 23 human

samples and 47 dog specimens and every single one contained microplastics. So again, we're not loving these thoughts.

In both cases, researchers sounded the alarm on a potential link between microplastics and

various sexual health concerns.

While neither study showed a causal link, which is to say it's too soon to blame microplastics

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