Not many people would voluntarily fly through plumes of smoke emitted from wildfires. But atmospheric scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory do, over and over, tracing flight paths ...
Environment
Mar 14, 2023
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Carbon nanostructures that formed in circumstellar envelopes around carbon-rich stars may have a shared chemical origin with soot particles produced by fuel combustion. The same reaction mechanism may underpin each process, ...
Nanophysics
May 16, 2022
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The Axiom-1 mission to send four private astronauts to the International Space Station is the first of many missions planned by NASA to expand the ISS for commercial use as part of what's being called the low-Earth orbit ...
Space Exploration
Apr 11, 2022
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Soot is one of the world's worst contributors to climate change. Its impact is similar to global methane emissions and is second only to carbon dioxide in its destructive potential. This is because soot particles absorb solar ...
Nanophysics
Nov 17, 2021
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Sustainable fuel blends used by aircraft may help reduce the impact of aviation on climate warming by producing less contrail cloud, concludes a study published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...
Environment
Jun 18, 2021
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Soot particles from oil and wood heating systems, as well as road traffic, can pollute the air in Europe on a much larger scale than previously assumed. This is what researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric ...
Environment
Jun 10, 2021
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A team of researchers from ETH Zurich has for the first time used simulations on the CSCS supercomputer Piz Daint to investigate how certain aging mechanisms of soot particles in the atmosphere affect cloud formation. The ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2020
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When fossil fuel or biomass burns, soot—also known as black carbon—fills the air. Black carbon is an important short-term climate driver because it absorbs solar energy and can affect the formation and composition of ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 26, 2020
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Black carbon particles—more commonly known as soot—absorb heat in the atmosphere. For years, scientists have known that these particles are affecting Earth's warming climate, but measuring their exact effect has proved ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2020
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In the atmosphere, individual soot particles emitted from human activities often encounter and combine with organic material, forming soot-containing particles. A research team led by scientists from the U.S. Department of ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2019
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