Microplastics are floating through the atmosphere and spreading across the globe, but their true origins have been ...

Smoke permeates everything and impacts everyone. The visible stew of carbon and particulates typically from emission sources travels in the air, shrouds buildings, suffocates birds, and penetrates ...

Microplastics circulate globally through the atmosphere, but their sources may not be what scientists once thought.

The source of potentially hazardous solar particles, released from the Sun at high speed during storms in its outer atmosphere, has been located for the first time by researchers at UCL and George ...

Scientists have observed particles forming from the vacuum, revealing how matter may emerge from seemingly empty space.

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic ...

A new study by the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Vienna has challenged many of the existing ...

Scientists find where airborne microplastics really come from: Study ...

Tiny particles bubbling up from the tops of melting sea ice into the Arctic sky may be a key, understudied element of cloud formation in that climate-sensitive region. Ice-nucleating particles can ...

Plastic particles can enter tea in several different ways - and teabags may play a bigger role than many people realize.

The regulatory compliance standards for modern pharmaceutical products are among the harshest in the world, demanding cutting-edge quality assurance and quality control procedures to ensure that ...