A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Berkeley scientists have developed a smartphone-based biosensor that mimics coffee-ring physics to detect disease proteins with exceptional sensitivity — but more research is needed before it reaches ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

The current infrastructure also isn’t set up to fully account for the shifting behavior of wildfire smoke, which can travel ...

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

Particle characterization through light scattering offers non-invasive, precise measurements, crucial for advancements in ...

Metal particle contamination can seriously affect the reliability of gas-insulated metal enclose transmission line (GIL) and cause insulation failure. In this article, we investigate the metal ...

Consideration of both TEM and ESR results suggests that the agglomerated particles do not contribute fully to radical scavenging. This conclusion is due to the short diffusion distances of short-lived ...

Air quality is uniquely terrible after all those official and illegal fireworks are detonated to celebrate Independence Day.

What is PM2.5? Hazardous airborne particles and chemicals can come in a variety of forms, and from a variety of sources, even some natural ones. Wind-blown desert and mineral dust, wildfires, ...

A new review article published in the Journal of Environmental Management summarizes the current state of knowledge on the ...