Dust is a common fact of life, and it's more than just a daily nuisance—it can get into machinery and equipment, causing loss of efficiency or breakdowns.
Nanomaterials
Feb 22, 2023
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Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms, some of which kick up enough dust to be seen by telescopes on Earth.
Planetary Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
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On a cold winter day, the warmth of the sun is welcome. Yet as humanity emits more and more greenhouse gases, the Earth's atmosphere traps more and more of the sun's energy and steadily increases the Earth's temperature. ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2023
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Until recently, the southern part of South America was believed to be the main source of the dust that lands in Antarctica. Fine particles, or aerosols, are often carried long distances by atmospheric circulation. This dust ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 20, 2023
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Understanding how dust grains form in interstellar gas could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop useful nanoparticles.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 13, 2023
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Little 'hurricanes' that form in the disks of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for smaller planets which orbit their star at large distances and are out of reach ...
Astronomy
Jan 6, 2023
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The London Underground is polluted with ultrafine metallic particles small enough to end up in the human bloodstream, according to University of Cambridge researchers. These particles are so small that they are likely being ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2022
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A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young solar system started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.
Astronomy
Nov 14, 2022
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Researchers from The Ohio State University are using dust trapped in glacier ice in Tibet to document past changes in Earth's intricate climate system—and maybe one day help predict future changes.
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2022
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Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a promising computational imaging technique to realize high-throughput pathological imaging in medical diagnosis. However, existing FPM colorization approaches suffer from a trade-off ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 19, 2022
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