Breathing clean air is essential for human health, making air filters indispensable in homes, hospitals, workplaces and ...

A category of air pollution so small it slips past the body’s defenses and into the bloodstream has been linked to a ...

Scientists discovered unusually high water-vapor supersaturation inside deep tropical clouds, creating conditions in which ...

But how much plastic are we really breathing in? And should we be worried? A modelling study published in the journal Nature earlier this year suggests the answer may be more complicated – and perhaps ...

A team of NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers has developed a novel approach to observing high-energy particles in the ...

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It is commonly assumed that tiny particles just go with the flow as they make their way through soil, biological tissue, and other complex materials. But a team of Yale researchers led by Professor ...

Around the world, some 1.5 billion tires are produced each year, and tire-wear particles are increasingly recognized as one of the largest sources of microplastic pollution.

Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to an understanding of ...

Debates over the presence of microplastics in the human body highlight the challenge of studying something simultaneously invisible to the naked eye and abundant.