Aerosol particles play important roles in radiation transport within the atmosphere, as toxic substances, as cloud condensation nuclei, and as vehicles for long range transport of various substances.

Investigations in the Health Physics and Medical Division at AERE, Harwell, into the behaviour of inhaled radioactive aerosol particles in the human respiratory tract have started—with the ...

An unplanned experiment takes scientists closer to solving a long-standing mystery: To what extent, if any, have ...

Advances in real-time MS analysis of ambient air have transformed AQM, providing a mechanism to detect and enforce air ...

This blog post explores the factors contributing to air pollution and introduces two instruments for continuous ambient air ...

Aerosol particles, also known as particulate matter, are everywhere. Some are kicked up by wind or produced from biological sources, such as tropical and boreal forests. Others are generated by ...

New Delhi's air pollution is more severe than previously estimated with particles absorbing atmospheric water vapor leading to particulate matter levels across the city being underestimated by up to ...

Metal-containing aerosols are present throughout the Earth’s atmosphere, originating from both natural and human-made sources ...

Rainfall triggers bursts of natural nanoparticles, which contribute to cloud formation and additional precipitation over the ...

Anthropogenic organic aerosols are carbon-containing particles emitted by humans into the air, which are classified as ...

Louis which was published in a special issue of ACS Sensors on "breath sensing," virus trackers have a way to monitor aerosol particles of H5N1. To create their bird flu sensor, researchers in the ...