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It isn't every day that good news emerges from the kind of people who study dead testicles, but we live in interesting times. A New Mexico study of human and canine testes has discovered microplastics in every tested sample, with the concentration almost three times higher in the human. Besides being more plasticised, the huamn testes were less fresh than the canine; but the latter showed a correlation between high plastic content and low sperm count. Hence the good news: while microplastics pollute the environment and damage health, they also help to reduce the likelihood of more people being born to suffer and exacerbate such inconveniences.